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The art & practice of typography : a manual of American printing, including a brief history up to the twentieth century, with reproductions of the work of early masters of the craft, and a practical discussion and an extensive demonstration of the modern use of type-faces and methods of arrangement (1917)

Gress, Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger), 1872-1934 · New York : Oswald Pub. Co. · leaf 301

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changes in Text type. Text letter in a variety of designs is used in Americafor special purposes—sometimes as headings of newspa-pers or for a line on stationery, but because it is generallyconsidered illegible it seldom is given place, except inGerman-language newspapers, on body portions of… … EXAMPLE 518 Text capitals and Text lower-case head, Development of the Roman Type-Face/ in tliiscliaptcr. It is iUustrated in Example 465. Text type may be seen in use, even to a small extent,on pages 5, 7 (insert), 8, 9, 12, 13 (insert), li (insert),IG, 17, 18, 27 (insert), 31, and in Examples 19,…

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