Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford, 1693-1794

Horace Hart joined Oxford University Press as Controller in 1883 and supplied founts of Fell types to Daniel and other private printers. Hart’s own interest in the history of the types culminated in his Notes on a Century, which uses recast types to partially recreate the seven original Fell specimens produced by OUP between 1693 (shown here) and 1794. Decades later, Stanley Morison still deemed this work essential to the study of typography.