Printing types, their history, forms, and use; a study in survivals (1922)
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 · Cambridge : Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 374
Pope (1785), in three folio vol-umes. The effect of the pages of the poems is very nobleand most readable, owing to the large size of fine type inwhich the text is set. The smaller types used for the con-tents, advertisements, quoted poetry, etc., become, as theydescend in size, gray and… … I s c o S E« GENTLEMEN, THE honor which the Artsacquire by being permittedto take poffeflion of thisnoble habitation, is one of the mofl confiderable of themany inftances we have received of his Majestysprotedtion; and the ftrongefi: proof of his defire to makethe Academy refpedable. Nothing has…
Typography · Printing -- History · Printing
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