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John Fell, the University Press and the 'Fell' Types.

by Morison, Stanley

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New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 315 pp. Folio. Authorized facsimile of the original edition printed by Oxford at the Clarendon Press in 1967. Includes numerous illustrations within the text and 23 plates. With a new introduction by Nicolas Barker. John Fell established the French sixteenth-century and the Dutch seventeenth-century origins of these types. He attributes certain sizes to such celebrated early punchcutters as Claude Garamod, Robert Granhon, and Pierre Haultin. Brown cloth with titles gilt on spine, printed on acid free paper. Fine, without dust jacket as issued. Oversize book: overseas orders will require extra postage.

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Bookseller
Lippincott Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
3326BT
Title
John Fell, the University Press and the 'Fell' Types.
Author
Morison, Stanley
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Garland Publishing
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1981
Keywords
Garland Series of Nineteenth-Century Book Arts and Printing History 0082438886
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Book Trade/History of Printing;

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We invite you to browse through the approximately 1800 books we have listed online on a wide variety of subjects, including strong holdings in Maine history and literature, lumbering, the North Woods of Maine, and Eastern Woodland Indians. We've been in business since 1975, over 25 years with a general antiquarian bookshop in Bangor.We are open by appointment; most of our stock of over 20,000 old and rare books have never been listed online, including a large selection of books on Maine and the Maine Woods. We are regularly adding to our inventory with new acquisitions.

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Spine
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Jacket
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Folio
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Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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