We had a couple of requests for some more samples of our latest new releases, so here the are. As usual, we’ve used Leo Marks’s short but rather appealing poem (known either as “The Life That I Have” or “Yours”) as our sampler :
Oxonia Roma and Oxonia Roman Bold: 
Oxonia Roman Condensed and Condensed Bold: 
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We were also asked about the origins of this little poem recently. For anyone interested, Leo Marks (shown to the right) was a World War II British Spymaster, who published his war memoirs “Between Silk and Cyanide” some years ago – highly recommended as a good read! (Leo Marks (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255944-7)
Wikipedia has a shorter version of the story here. This article also offers some interesting and topical sidelights, and adds a little more to the wartime story. Who would have thought a code-maker’s key might end up in a speech at a high sociity wedding?
