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REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED COPY first edition folio xviii, 278, [1 (colophon)], [1 (blank)]pp., 12 photographic plates (most double sided) with 23 images, original dark blue cloth, front cover and spine gilt blocked, fore and lower edges untrimmed, a few trivial fox spots on the deckled fore edge of a few leaves, else as new in the grey paper dust jacket (also as new) overprinted in red and black. A remarkable survival in this condition. Fell (1625 - 1686), English churchman and influential academic, served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford. He was key figure in the reorganization of Oxford University after the Restoration. "He has a permanent place in history as the founder of the first corporately -owned university press. The press which he set up and maintained largely at his own expense he bequeathed to the University on his death in 1686 and with it an equipment for printing in Latin or vernacular, Greek and exotic scripts bought or…
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JOHN FELL: THE UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE 'FELL' TYPES
by Morison, Stanley | introduction by Nicolas Barker
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New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1981. Hard Cover. Folio. xviii, 278, [4] pp. Facsimile Edition. A bright copy of this facsimile of Morison's history of the Fell type.
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John Fell: The University Press and the 'Fell' Types The Punches and Matrices designed for Printing in Greek, Latin, English and Oriental Languages bequeathed in 1686 to the University of Oxford by John Fell, D.D.
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