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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 78

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etters on an inclined body, so as to fit closely together, and beself-supporting. His system, however, involved a large number of combination-letters and ligatures, which rendered it generally impracticable; and it waseventually replaced by a square-bodied Script, contrived to unite all… … GREEK. REEK type first occurs in the Cicero de Officiis, printedat Mentz in 1465, at the press of Fust and Schoeffer.• The fount used is exceedingly rude and imperfect,many of the letters being ordinary Latin.1 In the sameyear Sweynheim and Pannartz at Subiaco used a goodGreek letter for some of…

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