[The Typophiles] Morison, Stanley.
Title |
The Roman Italic & Black Letter bequeathed to the University of Oxford by Dr John Fell. |
Date |
New York: 1951 |
Publisher |
The Typophiles, |
Description
The Twenty-Sixth Chap Book in the Typophile Series: The Fell Types. One of an edition limited to 475 copies: 325 for subscribers and contributors, and 150 for general sale. Designed and printed at the University Press, Oxford, by Charles Batey, Printer to the University, and bound by J.F. Tapley, New York. Brown cloth with blind stamped decoration to the upper board and gilt lettering to the spine. 12mo., 185 x 120 mm, pp. [1-4] 5-49 [50-52, including the colophon] illustrated with 4-line Pica Capitals Only, French Canon Roman, and French Canon Italic alphabets, selections of woodcut initials, type flowers and music type of the 17th and 18th centuries, and including an Extract from the Will of John Fell.
Condition
A book in Very Good condition.