STANLEY MORISON & 'JOHN FELL'.
The story of the writing and printing of Stanley Morison's book John Fell, the University Press and the 'Fell' types. Pp. 142(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), 12 hand-tipped photographic plates, plus 4 tipped-in original examples of printing using Fell types, title page printed in red & black, notes, index; demy 4to; red cloth, printed paper title label on spine; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little light foxing; The Old School Press, Bath, 2003. Edition limited to 240 numbered copies, signed by the author; standard binding. Hamel 228. *Stanley Morison's book on John Fell was published by Oxford University Press on the day after his death in 1967. Bishop John Fell, one of the founders of the Press, bequeathed it several matrices and punches in his will in the late seventeenth century. After decades of neglect, the types were first recast from the matrices in the 1860s, and between then and the closure of the Printing House in 1989, they were used for the printing of nearly 300 books. The original leaves in this copy are from Richard Challoner, Meditations for Every Day in the Year (1916); Bonamy Dobree, Restoration Tragedy, 1660-1720, (1929); Bullet's Seed of Israel: Tales from the English Bible(1929); and Print and Privilege at Oxford, by John Johnson & Strickland Gibson (1946). Item #164355
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