IM Fell Double Pica Font STANLEY MORISON, in his “THE ROMAN ITALIC & BLACK LETTER bequeathed to the University of Oxford by Dr. JOHN FELL” (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1951), began this way the description of the FELL TYPES: ”The Oxford Printing house possesses the oldest punches and matrices existing in England and they are not only preserved as relics but put to practical use as types cast from them are used in the fabrication of books as well as other printed materials.
It is the continuation of the executors of the will of John Fell, D. D. who died on 10 July, 1686, aged 61 years, Bishop of Oxford and Dean of Christ Church. He devoted all his life for establishing a ‘learned press’ in Oxford with invaluable equipment, and thus laid down a good precedent for the future of his publishing.
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