Poetic Obituaries: Vivian Ridler, who has died aged 95,

was Printer to Oxford University and the elder statesman of the printing world; the books and documents he produced were always elegant and beautifully designed--from the Bible on which the Queen swore her Coronation Oath to the labels for sausage merchants which he turned out early in his career.

For the 20 years after his appointment to Oxford as Archetypographicus academicus in 1958, he continued a tradition of fine scholarly production that stretched back to Archbishop Fell in the 17th century.

from Telegraph: Vivian Ridler

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