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New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. Hardcover. Near fine. 10 x 16 in. Brown cloth boards. Authorized reprint of the OUP edition. Condition is NEAR FINE ; minimal shelf wear, covers extremely clean and fresh. Binding tight and text spotless. Extra shipping may apply. Books on Books/oversize. RGR.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 315 pp. Folio. Authorized facsimile of the original edition printed by Oxford at the Clarendon Press in 1967. Includes numerous illustrations within the text and 23 plates. With a new introduction by Nicolas Barker. John Fell established the French sixteenth-century and the Dutch seventeenth-century origins of these types. He attributes certain sizes to such celebrated early punchcutters as Claude Garamod, Robert Granhon, and Pierre Haultin. Brown cloth with titles gilt on spine, printed on acid free paper. Fine, without dust jacket as issued. Oversize book: overseas orders will require extra postage.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue buckram gilt, DW, large folio, xvi, (1), 278, (1) pages, 22 full-page plates + profuse specimens, figures, ornaments and decorative initials. One of 1,000 copies handset in Fell types and printed on handmade paper by Vivian Ridler at the Oxford University Press. "John Fell" was the last - and some would say the finest - of the noble folios by this great printing historian" - "A Century for the Century," no. 73. Very slight edgewear, tips bumped, still a clean, near fine copy in a better than very good, mildly soiled and edgeworn DW, in archival mylar. Additional shipping cost may be requested.

Published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1967, limited edition of 1000 copies. Navy blue boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt roundel to front board under illustrated dustwrapper. Folio, 15.25ins x 10.5ins, xvii, (i), 278pp, colophon plus colour frontis and 22pp platers. Also 12 figures within the text. The last book to be set entirely by hand at Oxford, F / VG. Nb heavy book, expensive to post overseas.

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… Leer más

Oxford : at the Clarendon Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a somewhat edge-worn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, [2], 278 p., plates : ill., ports, tables. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Fell, John. Oxford University Press. Type and type-founding.