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LIST OF TYPE-SPECIMENS

HAARLEM, Museum Enschedé: 5, 15, i8, 30, 31, 34, 41, 43, 44,
48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68,
71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89,

90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, IOO, IOI, I02, IO3, 104,

105,106,107,108, no, ni, 112, 114,115,116,116a, 117,118,119,

121, 122, 123, I24, I25, I26, I27, I28, 129, I30, I3I, I32, 136a, I37,

138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,150,151,152,153.
the HAGUE, Museum van het Boek: 114.

Municipal Archives (GA): 129.

Royal Library (rl) : 80,114,129, 132, 140,147.
LEYDEN, Municipal Archives (GA): 5.

University Library (ul): 6, 12, 13, 26, 28, 29, 40, 41, 42, 46,

47, 51, 69, 77, 78,106.
London, British Library (bl): 10, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37,

38, 46, 78,150.

British Museum : 84.

St. Bride Printing Library: 73, 105, in, 120, 124, 129,148.
new YORK, Columbia University Library: 113, 120, 131, 133,

151.

H. P. Kraus, Cat. 147: 96,114.

New York Public Library (nypl): 120.

New York State Library: hi.
oxford, Broxbourne Library (deposit Bodleian Library), cf.

A. M. Fern's checklist in The Book Collector 5, 1956, pp.

256—272: 80,100,113,114,119,120,131,132,136,139,140,146.

University Archives: n.
paris, Bibliothèque Nationale (bn): 6, 51, 52, 55, 63, 78, 80,

105,107,109, 112, 113,114,119,120,122,126, 126a.
STOCKHOLM, Bergmann Collection: 46.

Sohm Colleftion: 40, 67, 72, 95,106,112,120.

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TABLE OF BODY-SIZES

The measurements of English old bodies are taken from founders' types dating from the early
years of this century. The sizes of the bodies varied to some extent, even in one typefoundry,
and during the period with which this book deals it was usual to make a special mould for
every set of matrices. Impressions in books of the i6th and 17th centuries compared with those
of the 19th century make me think that the average sizes of bodies had not altered much in
course of time and that the bodies used in continental countries were the same as those used
in England, excepting the Pica, which was rather bigger abroad. (H.C.)

Measurement1

English Olii Body

Approximate foreign equivalents

Inches

.0625

.0673

.0692

.0072

.074

.0830

.0835

.088

.0899

.0964

.098

.1036

.108

.1107

.118

.1184

.1245

•1335

•135

.1384

•444

.148

.1522

.1628

.166

.167

.1776

.181

•1937
.2072
.2214

American Didot
points points

M
16

Diamond
Pearl

Ruby

Nonparel

Emerald

Minion

Brevier

Bourgeois

Long Primer
Small Pica

Pica

English

Dutch

Diamant
Robijn

Parel

Nonparel

Jolij

Collonel

Brevier

Galjard

Garmond
Dessendiaan

Mediaan

Augustijn

French

Diamant
Robin

Parisienne

Nompareille
Jolie

Mignonne
Petit texte
Gaillarde

Petit romain

Philosophie

Cicero

St. Augustin

German

Diamant

Perl

Nompareil

Colonel

Brevier

Petit

Bourgis
Corpus

Cicero

Mittel

['] See for this system of measurement: P. J. W. Kilpatrick 2 vols. Edinburgh 1976. Vol. I, pp. 6-8. For the body-height
(ed.], Catalogue of the Edward Clark Library, with typographical notes by and the m-height of a number of body-sizes see : H. Carter,
Harry Carter and an essay on the printing of illustration by Frank P. Restali. A view of early typography up to about 1600. Oxford 1969, p. 127.

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