Charles Daniel began printing in 1845, when he was still a child, and he continued to print sporadically during the late 1840s and early 1850s. The serious work of the Daniel Press did not begin until 1874, however, when Daniel had his press brought to Oxford, where he was a fellow of Worcester College. For the next thirty years Daniel continued to print very limited editions of mainly literary works, which he would distribute to a small circle of friends. The Daniel Press is noted for its revival of the Fell types, which Dr John Fell had purchased for the Oxford University Press in the late 17th century, but which had long been in disuse.

Special Collections has the following items printed at the Daniel Press:

• Theocritus. Sixe Idillia. Oxford: 1883. PA4443.E5 D36 1883