Janus: Papers of the Fanfare Press

Manuscripts/MS Add.9825 contains:
A	Papers relating to the history and business of the press
B	Papers relating to types
C	Letters from customers to Ernest Ingham
D	Artwork and specimens
E	Other papers

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Papers of the Fanfare Press

Title	Papers relating to types
Reference	MS Add.9825/B
Covering Dates	1926-1954
Extent and Medium	9 folders and 1 envelope

Content and context

Items 1-7 in this series are titled by the type concerned. Each folder includes a typescript description of the type probably by Ingham, ca. 1954.

Manuscripts/MS Add.9825/B contains:

Tory-Garamond. Typescript captioned 'The Tory-Garamond type', with stock proofs of the 8-, 10- and 12-point roman and italic. These are marked 'Garamont'.
1 folder.

1926

Norstedt. Typescript captioned 'The Norstedt type used in Fanfare Noteheading'. With this are stock proofs of the 8- and 12-point roman and italic founts.
1 folder.

1926-1954

Perpetua roman. Typescript captioned 'Perpetua roman', with various proofs. One is marked by Ingham 'Early proof of the type from punches cut in France 1926'.
1 folder.

1926-1954

Tempest. Typescript captioned 'Tempest', with Monotype trial proofs of 48 and 60 point and ornaments made by Berthold Wolpe at the same time (Feb.-May 1936; Tempest was Monotype series 445). With these is a proof of all the letters in 60 point.
1 folder.

1936-1954

Cyclone. Folder 1 = typescript captioned 'Cyclone'; Monotype trial proofs of 18 36 42 60 point (Jan.-June 1939; Cyclone was then known as 'Fanfare Bold Condensed Italic Titling no. 2, series 445). Folder 2 = correspondence between Ingham and George Westover and Stanley Morison about making the matrices (1938-1939). Folder 3 = application to register the design with the Patent Office, including photographs of the Monotype display matrices, and reply rejecting the application (1939 and a cover sheet, 1954).
3 folders.

1938-1954

Festival. Typescript memoranda, progressive drawings, Monotype trials and proofs of the fount, laced into a cover, labelled on spine 'Festival type - memorandum and record'. With this are other typescript memoranda and a letter from the Monotype Corporation (Beatrice Warde) about the type dated 15 Nov. 1951.
1 volume and 1 folder in 1 envelope.

1950-1951

Arrighi. Typescript captioned 'Arrighi used in "The Tapestry" by Robert Bridges'.
1 folder.

1954

Letter from Stanley Morison to Ernest Ingham. Concerns the Perpetua and Norsted types.
1 folder.

1937