斯坦利·莫里森在其著作《约翰·菲尔博士遗赠牛津大学的罗马体、意大利斜体与哥特黑体字》（牛津大学出版社，1951年）中如此开启对菲尔字型的描述："牛津大学出版社保存着英格兰现存最古老的冲模与字模，这些材料不仅被珍视更被实际使用；由此铸造的活字被用于书籍及其他印刷品的排版。"

这实质上是神学博士约翰·菲尔遗嘱的遗产。他于1686年7月10日逝世，享年61岁，生前任牛津主教暨基督堂学院院长。自1668年起，他倾注毕生心血在牛津创建"学术出版社"，以珍贵的设备奠定基础，为出版业的未来树立了高标准。

他曾写道："所有成功的根基必须建立在精益求精之上，而我确信英文字体无法实现这一目标"（1672年12月2日致詹金斯函）。因此他收集了国外市场（主要是法国、荷兰与德国）的字体，并决定在自己的"工场"中研发字型。

彼得·德·瓦尔珀根成为其专属铸字师。哈利·卡特在《菲尔字型：相关成就与研究》（牛津大学出版社，1968年）中记载："他出生于美因河畔法兰克福，是新教难民后裔，祖先来自安特卫普。1671年受雇于荷兰东印度公司，在爪哇担任铸字师与印刷师。其字体设计的相对粗糙度表明，他很可能未受过冲模雕刻的专业训练。"

约翰·菲尔委托他雕刻较大字号的字型：大普里默罗马体与意大利斜体；双派卡罗马体与意大利斜体；法国卡农罗马体与意大利斜体；三行派卡罗马体。德·瓦尔珀根还雕刻了其他字型，并为现有字体增补字符以匹配大字号的风格。莫里森评论道："这些大型菲尔字体的设计难以定性且无法完全认可。其与十七世纪下半叶荷兰字体存在亲缘性，尤其类似克里斯托弗·范·戴克创作、埃尔泽维尔遗孀发行的字体样本表中的较大字号；但德·瓦尔珀根在笔画粗细对比上走得更远，其设计中的粗拙之处是范·戴克绝不会出现的。"

1686年约翰·菲尔离世。他在遗嘱中将全部字型收藏遗赠给牛津大学。莫里森特别提及："这批包含'冲模、字模、铸字盒等铸字材料'的完整收藏是约翰·菲尔'与他人耗费巨资汇集而成'。遗嘱执行人严格遵守了菲尔要求'妥善保存整套藏品'的指示。牛津大学的校长、院士与学者们恪守承诺维护'学术与印刷'的利益，使整套藏品得以完整保存而未流散。"

STANLEY MORISON, in his “THE ROMAN ITALIC & BLACK LETTER bequeathed to the University of Oxford by Dr. JOHN FELL” (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 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."

It’s essentially the inheritance of the will of John Fell, D.D. who died on 10 July 1686, aged 61, Bishop of Oxford and Dean of Christ Church. Since 1668 he spent his life creating a ‘learned press’ in Oxford, endowed with invaluable equipment, setting a high standard for the future of his publishing.

He wrote: "The foundation of all successe must be layd in doing things well, and I am sure that will not be don with English letters" (to Jenkins, 2 Dec. 1672). So he collectected types available in the foreign market: mainly France, Holland and Germany. Fell decided to develop types in its own ‘workhouse’ too.

Peter De Walpergen became his personal type-founder. Says Harry Carter in “THE FELL TYPES. What has been done in and about them” (Oxford University Press, New York, 1968): "He was born at Frankfurt am Main, descended from a Protestant refugee from Antwerp. He was engaged by the Dutch East India Company in 1671 to work as a type-founder and printer in Java. The comparative crudity of his letter design makes it seems unlikely that he had been trained to cut punches."

John Fell entrusted him with the cut of the larger bodies: Great Primer Roman and Italic; Double Pica Roman and Italic; French Canon Roman and Italic; Three Lines Pica Roman. De Walpergen cut other types and letters for existing types to be harmonized with the larger bodies. Commented Morison: "The design of these large Fell Types is difficult to characterize and impossible wholly to approve. It has some affinity with the Dutch work of the second half of the seventeenth century, especially with the bigger size of type shown in the Widow Elsevier’s specimen-sheet of types attributed to Christoffel van Dyck; but De Walpergen went much further in the contrasting weight of thick and thin strokes and his design has crudities about it of which Van Dyck would not have been capable."

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