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Excerpt from The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-Making, the Point System, the Names, Sizes, Styles and Prices of Plain Printing Types I The Processes of Type-making II The Names of the Leading Sizes of Types The Point System A Font of Type v Faces or Styles of Type. Old-style Roman Modern Faces of Roman Letter Condensed Roman Types Italic Types Fat-face or Title-typ x Black-letter Gothic XII Antique Types, Runic, Celtic, and Italian XIII The Classes and Prices of Printing-types. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.