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The Johannes Van Paddenburgh Edition (Utrecht 1684) of Bunyan's Eens Christens Reyse Rediscovered

The Johannes Van Paddenburgh Edition (Utrecht 1684) of Bunyan's Eens Christens Reyse Rediscovered 240 14: OXFORD The Oxford University Press, a publishing and printing office which has served the university since the second half of the 17th century, set up its own museum in 1955. Unfortunately we now have to use the past tense, for this Typographical Museum at the Oxford University Press, which Harry Carter reported on in the 1958 Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, no longer exists. The nucleus of the museum consisted of a large collection of punches and matrices which the OUP acquired in the second half of the 17th century. They included the famous Fell types, which were purchased by Bishop John Fell, mostly in the Netherlands, and which he donated to the University Press. On special occasions there were demonstrations of casting from these matrices, both manually (in an old hand mould) and mechanically (in an early 20th-century caster). The subsequent operations on the cast letter were also demonstrated, such as rubbing, dressing and reducing the type. Three old compositor's frames still survive; one is at the Press in Oxford, and the other two are in London (Science Museum and St. Bride Printing Library). They date from 1668-9, and are the oldest in the world. The associated type cases http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

The Johannes Van Paddenburgh Edition (Utrecht 1684) of Bunyan's Eens Christens Reyse Rediscovered

Quaerendo , Volume 12 (3): 240 – Jan 1, 1982

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Brill
Copyright
© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0014-9527
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1570-0690
DOI
10.1163/157006982X00264
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Abstract

240 14: OXFORD The Oxford University Press, a publishing and printing office which has served the university since the second half of the 17th century, set up its own museum in 1955. Unfortunately we now have to use the past tense, for this Typographical Museum at the Oxford University Press, which Harry Carter reported on in the 1958 Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, no longer exists. The nucleus of the museum consisted of a large collection of punches and matrices which the OUP acquired in the second half of the 17th century. They included the famous Fell types, which were purchased by Bishop John Fell, mostly in the Netherlands, and which he donated to the University Press. On special occasions there were demonstrations of casting from these matrices, both manually (in an old hand mould) and mechanically (in an early 20th-century caster). The subsequent operations on the cast letter were also demonstrated, such as rubbing, dressing and reducing the type. Three old compositor's frames still survive; one is at the Press in Oxford, and the other two are in London (Science Museum and St. Bride Printing Library). They date from 1668-9, and are the oldest in the world. The associated type cases

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Published: Jan 1, 1982

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