17th Century Fell Fonts, Free
Igino Marini’s presents his Fell Types Appreciation.
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“Stanley Morison, in his book “THE ROMAN ITALIC & BLACK LETTER bequeathed to University of Oxford by Dr. JOHN FELL” (Oxford University Press, 1951), began this way the description of the FELL TYPES:
“The Oxford Printing house holds the oldest punches and matrices surviving in England, material not only treasured but used; types cast therefrom being employed for the composition of books and other printed matter”. The collection was a gift made to the University by a bishop of Oxford, 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.
[via Jon Aquino]