John Dreyfus

{{short description|British book designer and historian (1918–2002)}}

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| education = Trinity College, Cambridge

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John G. Dreyfus (15 April 1918 – 29 December 2002) was a British book designer and historian of printing who worked for Cambridge University Press and the Monotype printing company.{{cite web|title=John Dreyfus (obituary)|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-dreyfus-133517.html|last=Barker|first=Nicolas|author-link=Nicolas Barker|website=The Independent|date=4 January 2003|accessdate=7 April 2019}}{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=John|title=John Dreyfus obituary|journal=Parenthesis|date=2003|url=http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/15.4Summer2004/15.4.DreyfusObit.Smith.pdf|accessdate=20 October 2016|archive-date=21 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021004449/http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/15.4Summer2004/15.4.DreyfusObit.Smith.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=John Dreyfus|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/john-dreyfus-xt7ws8v8f0s|website=The Times of London|access-date=13 October 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Bigelow|first1=Charles|last2=Holmes|first2=Kris|title=Remembering John Dreyfus|url=http://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2015/04/remembering-john-dreyfus.html|publisher=Bigelow & Holmes|accessdate=20 October 2016}} He was also president of the ATypI trade association.{{cite web|title=John Dreyfus: A Tribute|url=https://www.monotype.co.uk/DynamicPage/View.cfm?pagename=dreyfus|publisher=Monotype|accessdate=13 October 2016}}{{cite web|title=John Dreyfus, 1918–2002|url=https://www.atypi.org/about-us/whos-who/john-dreyfus-191820132002|website=ATypI|accessdate=13 October 2016|archive-date=13 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013221226/https://www.atypi.org/about-us/whos-who/john-dreyfus-191820132002|url-status=dead}} Into Print is an anthology of his collected writings.{{cite book|last1=Dreyfus|first1=John|title=Into Print: selected writings on printing history, typography and book production|date=1995|publisher=David R. Godine|location=Boston|isbn=9781567920451|edition=1st hardcover}}

Dreyfus was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1939, MA 1945).{{Cite web|title=Dreyfus, John Gustave, (15 April 1918–29 Dec. 2002), typographical consultant and historian|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-14124|access-date=2021-04-01|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|date=2007 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u14124|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}

Dreyfus received the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Mainz in 1996.