A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography |
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... brevier nor larger than double - pica . The mold consisted of four quadrangular pieces of brass , two of them with mortices to shift to a suitable body , and secured by screws . The best type they could select from the sort wanted was ...
... brevier nor larger than double - pica . The mold consisted of four quadrangular pieces of brass , two of them with mortices to shift to a suitable body , and secured by screws . The best type they could select from the sort wanted was ...
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... Brevier , his Philosophie , his Pica type , would be the names by which he would describe the sizes of letter he used for printing the works whose names they bore . It may also be assumed with tolerable certainty that in most of these ...
... Brevier , his Philosophie , his Pica type , would be the names by which he would describe the sizes of letter he used for printing the works whose names they bore . It may also be assumed with tolerable certainty that in most of these ...
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... Brevier Long Primer Pica 184 to a foot • 150 " 9 112 92 75 " " 99 English Great Primer ˇ 66 to a foot ˇ 50 " " ˇ 38 " 9 • 33 " " 171⁄2 " " Double Pica 2 - line English French Canon . " We have one body more , " he adds , " which is ...
... Brevier Long Primer Pica 184 to a foot • 150 " 9 112 92 75 " " 99 English Great Primer ˇ 66 to a foot ˇ 50 " " ˇ 38 " 9 • 33 " " 171⁄2 " " Double Pica 2 - line English French Canon . " We have one body more , " he adds , " which is ...
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... Brevier 112 ... ... ... 112/2 III 107 112 III Minion - ... ... ... 128 122 122 122 122 Nonpareil Pearl Diamond ... ... 150 143 144 144 144 144 ... ... 184 178 178 180 184 178 - ... 204 205 210 204 This list does not include Trafalgar ...
... Brevier 112 ... ... ... 112/2 III 107 112 III Minion - ... ... ... 128 122 122 122 122 Nonpareil Pearl Diamond ... ... 150 143 144 144 144 144 ... ... 184 178 178 180 184 178 - ... 204 205 210 204 This list does not include Trafalgar ...
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... Brevier . 15. Minion . 16. Nonpareil . 17. Pearl . ( Diamond . ) FRENCH . Double Canon . Gros Canon . Trismegiste . Petit Canon . Palestine . Gros Parangon . Petit Parangon . Gros Romain . Gros Texte . St. Augustin , Cicero ...
... Brevier . 15. Minion . 16. Nonpareil . 17. Pearl . ( Diamond . ) FRENCH . Double Canon . Gros Canon . Trismegiste . Petit Canon . Palestine . Gros Parangon . Petit Parangon . Gros Romain . Gros Texte . St. Augustin , Cicero ...
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2-line English alphabet Andrews appears Arabic artist Baskerville Baskerville's beautiful Bible Birmingham Black body Bowyer Brevier broadside Canon cast types Caxton century character Chiswell Street Colard Mansion copy Cottrell curious Dominica Double Pica Dutch early edition Edmund Fry England English typography engraved Enschedé face facsimile famous folio fount Glasgow Grammar Greek Greek types Hansard Hebrew interesting Irish issued Jackson James John John Baskerville Joseph Moxon labour Latin Letter Founder letter-founding list of matrices London Long Primer master mentions metal mould Moxon Nichols Nonpareil original matrices Oxford Paris Pica Roman Polyglot printers Printing Types probably produced published punch-cutting punches and matrices purchased Roman and Italic Roman letter Rowe Samaritan Saxon says sheet Small Pica Specimen Book Specimen of Printing Star Chamber subsequently Syriac Testament Thomas trade two-line typefounding Types cast typography University Vincent Figgins vols William Caslon Wilson
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