Forty-third Dinner Menu and Placecard

Date

May 1934

Collection

Hubert Foss Archive

Creator(s)

Hubert Foss, Walter Lewis

Code

HF/3/1/46

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The menu and Hubert Foss' handwritten placecard for the 43rd Double Crown Club Dinner, which was to be chaired by John Johnson and held at the Cafe Royal on 2 May 1934.

Members Graily Hewitt, Holbrook Jackson and James Shand were to read short papers on the typography of William Morris and Sir Sydney Cockerell was to be a guest speaker on the subject of the Kelmscott Press. The menu was designed and printed by Walter Lewis. It consists of four printed sides within a blue cardboard cover, with details printed in red.