Corporate DS/UK/367 The Double Crown Club; 1924-; Printers social group The Double Crown Club 1924- Printers social group DCC

The Double Crown Club is a specialist dinner group including printers and typographers such as, Edward Bowden, Stanley Morrison and Charles Pickering. The Club was a club formed by Stanley Morison and others such as, Oliver Simon (Curwen press) Bernard Newdigate (Shakespear Head Press) , Gerard Maynell (Westminister Press) Francis Maynell (Nonesuch Press) , Wren Howard and Jonathan Cape. According to Sir Sydney Roberts, writing in his 1966 memoir "Adventures With Authors," the founding of the Double Crown came during a "typographical renaissance which had a notable influence on book-production." While, the 1890s saw new standards being applied, Roberts wrote, it was not until after World War I that "publishers as a whole began to recognize that the basic principles of book design could, and should, be exemplified as clearly in a half-crown textbook as in a three-guinea edition de luxe." The first president, Roberts writes, was Holbrook Jackson. In 1924, Roberts was a member of the club's original committee along with Frank Sidgwick, Hubert Foss, Oliver Simon and Gerard Meynell. The club was meant to foster the exchange of ideas on "good printing" and was to meet no fewer than four times a year, and no more than six times. The name refers to a size of paper, but Roberts writes, it also was chosen because the club planned to "crown" two books a year. That tradition ended in 1927. But one tradition remained -- the typography for the menu for each dinner was handled by a member. The first dinner was October 31, 1924, with Simon designing the menu. Adventures With Authors, http://books.google.com/books?id=Iuc7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA68&dq=%22double+crown+club%22+simon&lr=&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=%22double%20crown%20club%22%20simon&f=false International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes Kstuckey 26/11/2009 emills 26/03/2026 76319590-d853-476e-be4e-777b095bfaf6