Item #19318 Notes on a century of typography at the University Press Oxford 1693-1794. A photographic reprint of the edition of 1900 with an introduction and additional notes by Harry Carter. HORACE HART.
Notes on a century of typography at the University Press Oxford 1693-1794. A photographic reprint of the edition of 1900 with an introduction and additional notes by Harry Carter.
Notes on a century of typography at the University Press Oxford 1693-1794. A photographic reprint of the edition of 1900 with an introduction and additional notes by Harry Carter.

Notes on a century of typography at the University Press Oxford 1693-1794. A photographic reprint of the edition of 1900 with an introduction and additional notes by Harry Carter.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. Lg. 4to, pp. [10], 16*, xvi, 203, [1]; frontis portrait of Hart, many typographical facsimiles throughout; very good copy in a slightly chipped jacket. A display and record of the typefaces given to the University of Oxford in the 17th century by Bishop John Fell as well as of other types and ornaments cast in old matrices and preserved at the press. The original edition of 1900 was printed in an edition of only 150 copies. Item #19318

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