A history of the old English letter foundries : with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and progress of English typography. (1887)
Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852-1893 · London : E. Stock · leaf 185
is slightly above the ordinary English height. The Learned-sideheight is about the same as the French height. Ancient jealousies between the two rivalSides have much to answer for in the growth of this anomaly. Happily, the differenceof height is now the only difference between the Bible and the… … 41. The Clarendon Press. (From an old wood block at the Oxford University Press.) its accommodation—a building considered at the time one of the finest printing-houses in the world.1 The encouragement given by Junius to the study of the Northern languagesresulted in the production of many important…
Typography · Printing
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