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 48
re-quirement for any particular class of work. The upper case COMPOSING FRAMES. 27 has 98 boxes, and the lower case 53 boxes. The e is allottedthe largest box in the lower case, and the other vowels andconsonants most frequently used are placed in the next sizeof division. These boxes are situated… … most frequently in use, as the vowels and consonantst n d h, should be nearest to his picking-up hand, in orderto save time in conveying the letter from the box to thecomposing stick. The diagrams, figs. 13 and 14, showthe plan of the ordinary upper and lower cases. For jobbing purposes special…
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