Notes on . a Century of Typography at the University Press,
arfurd, 1693-1794. By Horace Hart, Hon. M.A. (At the Clarendon Press.) —Mr. Hart prints here, with various notes and emplane- tiens, eight " specimens " issued from the Clarendon. Press from time to time between 1693 and 1794. A specimen " gave examples V various types-from which authors eceild ebense such
as-they thought most suitable. The'first types used at -Oxford came from Cologne. The negotiations to which we are intro- duced in this voltme were carried.on in Holland and elsewhere. Dr. Fell, Dean of Christ Church, was the principal in the affair, and Thomas Marshall, afterwards Rector of Lincoln College and Dean of Gloucester, the chief agent. In one of Marshall's letters (dated Atri1,1670) we have the prices of some type. Latin ketters . (brevier Romani, cost 2s. 2d. the pound ; nonpareil, 3s. 10d: The book, which is of a very handsome appearance, is, for the most part, of a technical character; to those who are interested in typography it will, we take it, be of very considerable interest. •
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