{"id":3705,"date":"2022-09-15T20:21:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:28:41","slug":"about-john-dreyfus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/about-john-dreyfus\/","title":{"rendered":"About John Dreyfus"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Gustave Dreyfus, 1918\u20132002, book designer, printing historian, typographic advisor to Monotype Corporation, founding member and second president of ATypI.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Ismar David and John Dreyfus at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of Chiswick Books, September 21, 1985.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n

His erudition<\/span> on a wide range of topics made him a respected lecturer and author, but John Dreyfus was universally loved and admired for his generosity, elegance\u2014sartorial and rhetorical (in English, French or German)\u2014and kindness.<\/p>\n

Like Rollo Silver<\/a>, Dreyfus was a mainstay at the Heritage of the Graphic Arts lecture series, organized by Bob Leslie’s<\/a> at Gallery 303. Beginning in 1965, when his topic was Jan Van Krimpen<\/a>, whom he had known well, until 1980, Dreyfus spoke nearly every year. The keepsake for his Baskerville lecture in 1971 included a reprint<\/a> of Ismar David\u2019s Baskerville portrait<\/a>, originally done for a type specimen produced by the Composing Room<\/a>. On April 26, 1971, Ismar David wrote:<\/p>\n

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Dear John,
We are looking forward to your lecture at Gallery 303. It has always been delightful and instructive to listen to you, and I am sure the lecture on Baskerville will be no exception.<\/p>\n

Dr. Leslie told me that you intend to use the Baskerville drawing from a Composing Room type speicmen for a keepsake. I will be pleased to se it revived and you certainly have my permission to use it.<\/p>\n

So, we, Dorothy and myself are expectin you in the fall.<\/p>\n

With best wishes…1<\/a><\/sup>Ismar David papers, box 2, folder 42, Cary Graphic Arts Collection, RIT.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n