[256] Ibid., v, 236.
[257] Latham’s Oxford Bibles and Printing in Oxford. 1870, p. 46.
[258] The University supplied a press and type to King Charles I during the Civil War (Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa. Oxford, 1781. 2 vols., 8vo., i, 281).
[259] Lemoine, Typographical Antiquities. London, 1797. 8vo, p. 87. The office of Archi-typographus had been instituted by Laud, about 1637.
[260] He it was on whom Tom Brown wrote his famous epigram:—
- “I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
- The reason why, I cannot tell;
- But this alone I know full well,
- I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.”
- “I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
- The reason why, I cannot tell;
- But this alone I know full well,
- I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.”
[261] Bagford (Harl. MS. 5901, fo. 89) mentions that Dr. Fell encouraged the fitting-up of a paper mill at Wolvercote, by Mr. George Edwards, “who was a cutter in wood of the great letters, and engraved many other things made use of in the printing of books, and had a talent in maps, although done with his left hand.” Of this mill, Hearne wrote in 1728, “Some of the best paper made in England is made at Wolvercote Mill” (Reliq., ii, 85, ed. 1869).
[262] This list, which was appended to the specimen of 1695, doubtless includes a few items acquired by the Press since Dr. Fell’s death. (Harl. MSS. 5901, 5929.)
[263] The Coptic fount included in his gift is said to have been cut, not only at his expense, but under his personal supervision, from a character (Mores states) delineated by Mr. Wheeler, rector of St. Ebbe’s, in Oxford.