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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 33

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rolls of manuscript, mostly brought fromGreece. The length of the rolls varied from small onesof two hundred lines to massive scrolls of one hundredand fifty feet when unwound. There is a legend that Ptolemy Philadelphus was soimpressed with the appearance of a roll of parchment con-taining in gold… … ANCIENT ROMAN READING A MANUSCRIPT ROLLFrom a painting found at Pompeii Jews from Jerusalem. Hence the name Septuagint,which has always been applied to that Greek version ofthe Old Testament. Julius Casar, the Roman conqueror, whom Shake-speare designated the foremost man of all this world,about…

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