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The practice of typography; a treatise on the processes of type-making, the point system, the names, sizes, styles and prices of plain printing types (1899)

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : The Century co. · leaf 163

An illustration from The practice of typography; a treatise on the processes of type-making, the point system, the names, sizes, styles and prices of plain printing types, 1899, leaf 163 — e advantages that may accrue from uniformbodies will be more than nullified if general uni-formity in height is not secured. If some type-founders continue to adhere to the old standardof height, while others attempt to introduce thenew, without a careful refitting of special matricesto the new… … type-gauge, of which an illustration is here given.The two jaws or graduated faces are very slightlyout of parallel, at an angle so slender as to be un-pereeived until theyare held against thelight. The thumb-piece allows the un-der jaw to be ad-justed on the slide tofit any body. Whenset to the…

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