John G. Dreyfus

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John Gustave Dreyfus (born April 15, 1918 in London ; † December 29, 2002 there ) was an English print historian and typographer .

Life

Dreyfus was born in London in 1918. His father came from a banking family from Basel; his mother was from Paris.

After studying economics, he learned classical typography at Cambridge University Press; from 1946 to 1959 he worked as an Assistant University Printer at Cambridge University Press . He participated in the design of the catalog for the Gutenberg anniversary exhibition, which the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge organized in 1940. The event was canceled earlier than planned. The reason for this was the Second World War . The exhibition, which was supposed to honor Johannes Gutenberg , could not be rescheduled until 1963 in London with the title “Printing and the Mind of Man”. Dreyfus took part in the organization again and was responsible for the catalogs.

From 1954 he worked as a typographic consultant for the Monotype Corporation (successor to Stanley Morison). He also worked as a remote advisor for the entire European area of ​​the Limited Editions Club in New York. From 1967 to 1973 he was President of the Association Typoghaphique Internationale (A.TYP.I) and then Honorary President. In 1975 he was elected President of the Printing Historical Society in London.

Thanks to numerous publications on both historical and current topics, Dreyfus has worked through the development of metal typesetting through photo typesetting to the digital reproduction of characters.

He died in London on December 29, 2002.

Works

  • The Work of Jan van Krimpen: a record in honor of his 60th birthday. Haarlem: Enschedé [et al.], 1952.
  • Printing and the Mind of Man . London, East Sussex, United Kingdom FW Bridges & Sons Ltd., 1963.
  • Italic quartet: a record of the collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker and Edward Prince in making the Cranach Press Italic . Cambridge: University Printing House, 1966.
  • The personal pleasures of a private press . Irving W. Robbins Stanford, 1971.
  • William Caxton and his Quincentenary . New York: The Typophiles, 1976.
  • William Morris and the art of the book . New York: The The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976.
  • Aspects of French eighteenth century typography: a study of type specimens in the Broxbourne Collection at Cambridge University Library . Cambridge: The Roxburghe Club, 1982.
  • Mecanorama. Le Perray-en-Yvelines: Mecanorama Technologies, 1988.
  • Morris and the printed book: a reconsideration of his views on type and book design in the light of later computer-aided techniques . London: William Morris Society, 1989.
  • A Londoner's View of Three Los Angeles Printer Friends and Their Work: Grant Dahlstrom, Saul Marks, Ward Ritchie. Los Angeles Occidental College Book Arts Program, 1990.
  • A typographical masterpiece. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1990.
  • Eric Gill for Father Desmond. London: Bain & Williams, 1993.
  • Into print: selected writings on printing history, typography and book production . London: The British Library, 1994.

Prices

  • 1976 Sir Thomas More Award from the University of San Francisco
  • 1984 Frederic W. Goudy Award from the Rochester Institute of Technology
  • 1984 American Printing History Association Award
  • 1996 Gutenberg Prize from the international Gutenberg Society in Mainz

See also

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Web links

http://www.atypi.org/05_About_us/80_whowho/75_john_dreyfus

personal data
SURNAME Dreyfus, John G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreyfus, John Gustave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English print historian and typographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2002
Place of death London