Fifty-third Dinner Menus and Placecard

Date

January 1936

Collection

Hubert Foss Archive

Creator(s)

Hubert Foss, Basil Blackwell

Code

HF/3/1/57

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Two copies of the menu and Hubert Foss' handwritten placecard for the 53rd Double Crown Club Dinner, which was chaired by Hubert Foss and held in the hall of Exeter College, Oxford on 10 January 1936.

After the dinner members and their guests saw an exhibition of Dr Johnson's collection in 'The Sanctuary of Printing' at the University Press. The menu was designed by Basil Blackwell 'from type formerly usede by Henry W. Taunt' and printed at the Modern Press, Oxford. It has three printed sides.