John Fell. The University Press and the ‘Fell’ Types. The Punches and Matrices Designed for Printing in the Greek, Latin, English, and Oriental Languages Bequeathed in 1686 to the University of Oxford by John Fell, D.D. Delegate of the Press, Dean of Christ Church Vice-Chancellor of the University and Bishop of Oxford. With the Assistance of Harry Carter

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Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1967. Portrait frontispiece in colour, xviii, 278 pages + 22 plates. Folio (39 x 27,5 cm). Blue buckram, title gilt on spine, front board blind stamped and gilt, top edge cut others untrimmed, dust jacket is missing. Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Plates, and 12 figures in the text. The last of Stanley Morison’s great folios which was finally published in 1967, on the day after his death, in an edition of 1000 copies printed on all rag paper, printed from Fell types specially cast from original matrices. The text was composed by hand in roman and italic of English size and the footnotes in long primer. 

“The culmination of some 40 years’ investigation into the history of the Fell types. This magnificent folio is one of the most impressive pieces of bookmaking this century.” (Appleton 227, BM Portrait no. 143).