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_From_ JOHNSON’S _Typographia_ (1824), Vol. II, p. 217. Though a variety of opinions exist as to the individual by whom the art of printing was first discovered; yet all authorities concur in admitting PETER SCHOEFFER to be the person who invented _cast metal types_, having learned the art of _cutting_ the letters from the Guttembergs: he is also supposed to have been the first who engraved on copperplates. The following testimony is preserved in the family, by Jo. Fred. Faustus of Ascheffenburg. ‘PETER SCHOEFFER of Gernsheim, perceiving his master Faust’s design, and being himself ardently desirous to improve the art, found out (by the good providence of God) the method of cutting (_incidendi_) the characters in a _matrix_ that the letters might easily be singly _cast_, instead of being _cut_. He privately _cut matrices_ for the whole alphabet, and when he showed his master the letters cast from those matrices, Faust was so pleased with the contrivance that he promised Peter to give him his only daughter _Christina_ in marriage, a promise which he soon after performed. But there were as many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with _wooden ones_; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression: but this defect was soon remedied, by mixing the metal with a substance which sufficiently hardened it.’
The Clarendon The Clarendon Pre The Clarendon Press Ox The Clarendon Press, Oxfo The Clarendon Press, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, w The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was n The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was na The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named a The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named after The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named after The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named after the The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named after the E The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named after the Earl of The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named after the Earl of Clarendo The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was named after the Earl of Clarendon. _The Clarendon Press, Oxford, was_ The Clarendon Press, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, Oxfo The following is a list of type-bodies in more common use, the first column giving the name of the English type-body, and the second its designation under the American point-system. _English_ _American_ Pearl 5 point Ruby 5½ ” Nonpareil 6 ” Minion 7 ” Brevier 8 ” Bourgeois 9 ” Long Primer 10 ” Small Pica 11 ” Pica 12 ” _NOTE._—_The words ending in_ -able, -ible, -ise, -ize, _and_ -ment, _and also others, given in alphabetical order on pp. 9-37_ (q.v.), _are not repeated here_.
A or an, use of, 39. before contractions, 39. Abbreviations, _see_ Contractions. in French, 82-4. in German, 93-4. -able, words ending in, 9. Accented -èd in poetry, 45. Accents in French, 78-9. Allardyce on _Stops_, &c., examples from, 64. Alternative or difficult spellings, some, 15-24. Ampersand (&), 43. And (with and without comma), 57. Anglicized words, set in roman, 35-6. Apocrypha, contractions for books of, 42. Aposiopesis, mark of, 62. Apostrophe, in French names ending in -s or -x, 72. in German, 94. in place-names, 44. in poetry, 45. in possessive case of proper names, 71. omitted in hers, ours, theirs, yours, 44. thin space before, when to use, 49. when to join close up, 44. Asterisks, as reference signs, 70. in philology, 48. not to be used for marks of hiatus, 62. Authors and their works, references to, 52. Awkward divisions, &c., 53-4, 80-1. Beadnell on _Spelling_, &c., 55-61. Bible and Prayer Book spellings, 9 (note). Bible, contractions for books of, 41-2. references to chapters and verses in, 52. Book sizes— 4to, 8vo, 12mo, &c., need no full points, 42. Brackets, 61. Breaklines, length of, 49. Capital letters, when to use in English, 46. in French, 73-7. in German, 88. in lemmas, 67. when accented in French, 78.
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