In July and August me and my family have visited Belgium and Netherland. So it’s been a duty, when in Antwerp, to visit the Plantin Moretus Museum. It’s been a chance to see some of the “cousins” of the Fell Types: the printing materials that also found their way to Oxford when Thomas Marshall, sent by John Fell, went in Holland looking for types to buy. Like these “Fell Flowers” I saw there. In 1953 the Archive of the Plantin Moretus Museum has been fundamental for Stanley Morison, helped by Harry Carter, to finally cathegorize the Fell Types bought in Holland.

