Printing; a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books; (1890)
Jacobi, Charles Thomas, 1853-1933 · London : G. Bell and sons · leaf 109
l margins on the fore-edge for octavo.In other sizes, with a greater number of pages, the sheetshould be turned the other way and made out length-wise precisely in the same manner. Type measures.—For measuring purposes a pica-gauge ortype-scale, fig. 72, marked with pica ems, must be used.These may… … Fig. 71. of four-to-pica brass rule. In purchasing a measure, how-ever, it is best to procure one which has the standardbodies of the particular founts in use in your office, as someof the types other than pica vary somewhat. The furniture to be placed round the forme is the nextthing to be…
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