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The Fell Types

The Fell type collection was a gift made to Oxford University by a bishop of Oxford, Dr. John Fell, in the late seventeenth century. He bought punches and matrices in Holland and Germany in 1670 and 1672 and entrusted his personal punchcutter, Peter de Walpergen, with the cut of the larger bodies. Bibliography compiled by Igino Marini, who revived some Fell types in 2004:

• Stanley Morison: "The roman italic&black letter bequeathed to University of Oxford by Dr. John Fell", Oxford University Press, 1951.
• Stanley Morison: "John Fell The University Press and the 'Fell' Types", Oxford University Press, 1967.
• Horace Hart: "Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford, 1693-1794", Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1970 (facsimile edited by Harry Carter from the original of 1900).
• Harry Carter: "The Fell Types - What has been done in and about them", Oxford University Press, New York, 1968.

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