69 78 Morison S Morison, S. 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. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1967, XVIII,278,(2)p., 22 plates, facs. ills., orig. gilt cl. w. dustwr., folio. - Dustwr. sl. dam. = The first edition, limited to 1000 copies and printed on rag paper. "In Fell's honour the entire book was set in type cast in the typefoundry with the matrices he had bought. This meant setting by hand, using and re-using a fount of type which was enough for forty pages only. As soon as proofs were passed the formes for five sheets of the book were sent to machine. The printing, reminiscent of methods in Fell's day, began in 1965 and was finished in June 1967." (Moran, Stanley Morison p.156).
69 78 Morison S Morison, S. 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. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1967, XVIII,278,(2)p., 22 plates, facs. ills., orig. gilt cl. w. dustwr., folio. - Dustwr. sl. dam. = The first edition, limited to 1000 copies and printed on rag paper. "In Fell's honour the entire book was set in type cast in the typefoundry with the matrices he had bought. This meant setting by hand, using and re-using a fount of type which was enough for forty pages only. As soon as proofs were passed the formes for five sheets of the book were sent to machine. The printing, reminiscent of methods in Fell's day, began in 1965 and was finished in June 1967." (Moran, Stanley Morison p.156).
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