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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 352

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en framework of wrought iron and steel,rhomboidal as to shape. When put to work, itis suspended about eight inches over a flat nuitaltable. It has five sliort projections extendingtoward this table; some of them are the extreme Bescription of Pantograph 349 angles of the framework. Two of these… … The pantograph for wood type. pattern letter beneath it (which is practically anenlarged type in high relief), and accurately com-municates every deviation of motion in a reducedproportion to the router. The fifth projection isnear the center of the framework, and carries therouter, which is…

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