Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford.

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Creator

Horace Hart (1840–1916)

Title

Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford.

Coverage

Oxford

Publisher

Printed at the University Press

Date

1900

Subject

Folio

Description

The Oxford University Press is probably the oldest continuously operating publisher in the world, with origins dating back to 1633. Over the centuries the Press accumulated a large amount of typographic material from an extremely wide assortment of sources. Notably, when Bishop John Fell became the head of the operation in 1672, he saw the need to expand and improve upon the types available at Oxford.

By the time Horace Hart became controller of the press in 1883, these resources were something of a disorganized mess. Hart took on the task of cataloguing and organizing this disparate material.

Relation

PROVENANCE: Inscribed by the author to the Grolier Club