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Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970 reprint of 1900 first edition. Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to, 33 cm,. ix, 16, xvi, 203 pp, ills, facs. From the blurb: "Horace Hart's Century is a display and a record of the typefaces given to the University of Oxford in the seventeenth century by Bishop John Fell and of other types and ornaments cast in old matrices preserved at the Press. In an appendix Hart prints the letters exchanged between Fell and his agent in Holland about the purchase of matrices and type. The author, Printer to the University from 1883 until 1915 printed 150 copies of his book in 1900 and gave them to people prominent in the literary world. It has not been reprinted previously. The Century has come to be regarded as a classic authority by students of typographical history. This reprint by photo-lithography is supplemented by an introduction and notes. Research done since the book was issued, particularly by the late Stanley Morison into the origins of the Fell types, is digested in…
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Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford, 1693-1794, Capa dura - 1970
por Oxford University Press; Rebecca Parry
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- Título Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford, 1693-1794,
- Autor Oxford University Press; Rebecca Parry
- Encadernação Capa dura
- Edição First Edition Th
- Páginas 16
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Clarendon Press, London
- Data de publicação December 31, 1970
- ISBN 9780198181385 / 0198181388
- Library of Congress subjects Type and type-founding - England - Oxford -, Early printed books - England - Oxford -
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 70024174
- Dewey Decimal Code 686.224
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London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Frontispiece portrait of author. Profusely illustrated with type specimens. DJ has a 1" closed tear to top front panel and a 1" loss at base of spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. .
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Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970 reprint of 1900 first edition. Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to, 33 cm,. ix, 16, xvi, 203 pp, ills, facs. From the blurb: "Horace Hart's Century is a display and a record of the typefaces given to the University of Oxford in the seventeenth century by Bishop John Fell and of other types and ornaments cast in old matrices preserved at the Press. In an appendix Hart prints the letters exchanged between Fell and his agent in Holland about the purchase of matrices and type. The author, Printer to the University from 1883 until 1915 printed 150 copies of his book in 1900 and gave them to people prominent in the literary world. It has not been reprinted previously. The Century has come to be regarded as a classic authority by students of typographical history. This reprint by photo-lithography is supplemented by an introduction and notes. Research done since the book was issued, particularly by the late Stanley Morison into the origins of the Fell types, is digested in…
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