The “lay” of a pair of type cases (lower case). details |
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| Image title: | The “lay” of a pair of type cases (lower case). | |
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| Source: | Blades, William: “Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges” (1891) | |
| Place shown: | none | |
| Keywords: | typography, printing, greyscale | |
| Status: | public domain in the USA, out of copyright in Canada, hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes and no usage credit required | |
Notes: |
This is the lower half of the figure, and shows (not by coincidence) how the miniscule letters, now called lower case letters, were stored in the type case. Note that quadrat is from the Latin for square, and refers to an Em space, that is, a space whose width and height is the same, and hence the same as the type size. |
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| Dimensions: | 115 x 51mm (4.5 x 2.0 inches) | |
| Filename: | 052-The-Lay-of-a-pair-of-type-cases-b-q75-5467x2484.jpg | |
| Blog link: | http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/pages/052-The-Lay-of-a-pair-of-type-cases-b//052-The-Lay-of-a-pair-of-type-cases-b-q75-500x227.jpg | |
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