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The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 64

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arate the words, from the hair space tothe three-em quadrat. The spaces in the following illustra-tion are of the same body, but they are of different widths,to suit the peculiarities of different kinds of printed matter. i i m m hb Six-in-em Fivc-in-cm Four-in-era Threc-in-cm En Em Two-era… … would lead to fatal faults in inaccuracy of body. Exactnessof body can be had only by casting all the characters in onemould, but this mould must be made to suit all the matrices.The matrices must be fre-quently changed, but withsuch nicety that the typesof every letter shall beuniform in height,…

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