Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford 1693-1794. A Photographic Reprint of the Edition of 1900 with an Introduction and Additional Notes by Harry Carter

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Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1970. (10 + front portrait), 16, xvi, 203, (1) pages. Large 4to (32 x 26,5 cm). Buckram binding with gilt titles and emblem decoration. Dust jacket slightly chipped. Profusely illustrated and with the additional matter handset in the Fell types.

Horace Hart joined Oxford University Press as Controller in 1883 and supplied founts of Fell types to Daniel and other private printers. Hart’s own interest in the history of the types culminated in his Notes on a Century, which uses recast types to partially recreate the seven original Fell specimens produced by OUP between 1693 (shown here) and 1794. Decades later, Stanley Morison still deemed this work essential to the study of typography. (Appleton 373).