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Printing types, their history, forms, and use; a study in survivals (1922)

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 · Cambridge : Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 342

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by present standards. Our last sixteenth century example is Adam Islips folioChaucer, printed at London in 1598. Its prefatory matteris set in roman and italic, with some black-letter inter-mingled—and in the large sizes the first two types are re-spectable fonts. The text, however, is set in… … as H fain befo^e,Cl^al come m nes in tranJlating, tijen to aripe 9 tkilMl cljoire tn mar^^ing outl3t0t)t;pointe$>a0» < ^f. Prcprium.2.TrafjJIatum, ^, Contrmmn,J. Diuerfum.\ S. Phrafcs, %\itnUU to daDerl»it&ftimsi^ea?)Da5lsl3ntote, ^.^^^^fomc babe of TuMie,astbetIjiri3b®keofC^piftlctf tWm…

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