A Guide to Typography in Two Parts Literary And Practical Or the Readers Ha
A Guide to Typography in Two Parts Literary And Practical Or the Readers Ha
Henry Beadnell
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Descending in the scale of sizes, the next in order is Small Pica. Typographia ars est artium omnium conservatrix. It seems to have been so called merely because it is somewhat less than pica, and filled up a gap between that size and the next to be mentioned. The French call it Philosophic; the Germans Brevier or RJieinldnder ; and the Dutch Dessendiaan. A lineal foot contains 83 lines. Next to it is a very useful size, called Long Primer. Typographia ars est artium omnium conservatrix. This s...ize is three fourths of the size of pica, and is the kind of type in which the ' Corpus Juris' was first printed by the Germans. The French call it Petit- Romain; the Germans Corpus (for the reason above alluded to) or Garmond. Of it there are 89 lines to a foot. Next comes a sized type much used in leaders of newspapers : Bourgeois. Typographia ars est artium omnium conservatrix. It is of French origin, and is there known by the title of Gaillarde ; but the Eoglish name we took from the Dutch. It is equal to half a great primer, and is twice the size of diamond; or requires 102!
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