Oak Knoll

Printed in an edition limited to 225 copies, this being the firts full book to be set in Robert Procter's "Otter" Greek types (Bowman pp.203-209; Updike II p.215-216). This copy has a presentation by Sydney Carlyle Cockerell to Robert Noel Cristie, Cambridge, August 24, 1921, on the front free endpaper in ink. Foxing and soiling to the covers, very light rubbing to the spine, else a near fine copy.

Proctor designed the type based on fifteenth century letterforms and specifically on the celebrated Alcala fount of 1514. In designing new types based on historical letter forms he had been inspired by the example of William Morris. The ATHENAEUM at the time wrote of the Aeschylus, "the capitals, seen in bulk, are especially fine." The text of this edition was prepared by Robert Proctor. The first eight sheets were read by him for the press and after his death (or suicide) in 1903 the remaining proofs were read by his colleague Frederic George Kenyon at the Chiswick Press. Finely printed in red and black on Batchelor handmade paper and interleaved with paper watermarked Municipal Superfine. Some period annotations mostly in Greek with some in English in ink mostly confined to interleaved pages. An important book in the development of Greek typography in the west.