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The practice of typography; a treatise on the processes of typemaking, the point system, the names, sizes, styles and prices of plain printing types (1902)

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York, Century · leaf 305

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Black of Sixteenth Century 300 For more than three centuries English type- founders adhered with great tenacity to the form of pointed black that had been provided for them by the early French and Flemish founders. The model letters drawn by Moxon in 1676 for his "Rules of the Three Orders of Print… … From Moxon's " Mechanick Exercises." show no important departure from those used by Pynson and Wynkyn de Worde. Nor was any change made by English founders of the seven- teenth or eighteenth century that would justify 2Db* ijoty ano UesWD SDoctour &apnt 3lerom gapttj tt^0 ^luctorpte, SDo altoepe…

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