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Practical printing : a handbook of the art of typography (1900)

Southward, John, 1840-1902 · London : "Printers' Register" Office · leaf 169

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156 THE KEEPING OF POSTER TYPE. positor’s hand to reach the back letters. The smallest letter should be placed lowest, the next size above, and so on up to the ceiling if necessary, where the largest letter on the widest shelf will overhang. … WOOD LETTER SHELF. Keeping Metal Poster Types.— These are kept in cases, ordinary or sanspareil. The ordinary upper case should never be used for anything larger than great primer capitals, for it cannot hold the proper proportion to the lower case, even if the small capital side be pressed into…

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