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 270
or the one illustrated on the preceding page, isgenerally preferred for the initial letters and thetitle-page letters of texts that have been composedin modernized old-style. NEW OLD-STYLEM.S,&J.CO.,i88o. Two-line small-pica condeused old-style. Another variety of condensed modernized… … Four-liue pica old-style condensed. 268 Extra Condensed Old-style Old-style condensed letter is made in a greatervariety, and is more thoroughly graded, than theestablished old-style of standard form. From thebodies commonly used a printer can select two orthree distinct widths, which mate better…
Printing · Typography
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