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Papers of John Dreyfus

Title Other subject files
Reference MS Add.9815/D
Extent and Medium 25 boxes
Content and context

Mostly research notes covering subjects on which John Dreyfus worked during a long period or for more than one publication. These are as follows:

Box 51 = William Morris

Boxes 52-53 = T. J. Cobden-Sanderson

Boxes 54-55 = Emery Walker

Box 56 = Edward Johnston, Harry Kessler, and the Cranach Press

Box 57 = Edward Johnston

Box 58 = Eric Gill

Boxes 59-60 = Jan Van Krimpen

Box 61 = Gerard Meynell and the Westminster Press

Box 62 = Robbert Gibbings and the Golden Cockerell Press, including a glass negative photograph of Gibbings (with another negative showing Bruce Rogers, Emery Walker, and Wilfred Merton)

Box 63 = Frederic Warde, Beatrice Warde, Charles Malin

Box 64 = John Baskerville

Box 65 = William Starling Burgess and the design of Times Roman

Box 66 = John Baskerville, Giovanni Mardersteig, Bruce Rogers

Box 67 = Bruce Rogers

Boxes 68, 69 = the history of spectacles

Box 70 = D. B. Updike; the Curwen Press; Henry Lewis Bullen; International Typographic Council, Paris, France May 1926 (an album of original documents); Ashendene Press Subiaco type; Porter Garnett; Hebrew typography; documents about attempts to obtain international protection for typeface designs through new legislation; F. W. Goudy; miscellaneous subjects (one folder)

Boxes 71-72 = 'British and European printing history and printed ephemera' and 'American printing history and printed ephemera' (Dreyfus's labels); with other printed matter on various subjects including L. W. Wallis, Type design developments 1970-1985 (typescript in a plastic comb binding)

Boxes 73-75 = small loose-leaf notebooks containing speaking notes for lectures; but some appear to be general research notes

Index Terms
Johnston, Edward (1872-1944) Calligrapher and Designer
Updike, Daniel Berkeley (1860-1941) printer
Rogers, Albert Bruce (1870-1957) book designer
Kessler, Harry (1868-1937) Graf, activist and proprietor of the Cranach Press
Morris, William (1834-1896), poet artist and socialist
Sanderson, Thomas James Cobden- (1840-1922) bookbinder printer
Walker, Sir Emery (1851-1933) Knight process engraver
Gibbings, Robert John (1889-1958) author and illustrator
Bullen, Henry Lewis (1857-1938) Librarian of the American Type Founders company
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