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"than in the same operations with ugly ones."
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"produced the block books, which were the immediate predecessors of the true printed book."
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"Caslon's type is clear and neat, and fairly well designed."
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"This experiment was so far successful that about 1850 Messrs. Miller and Richard of Edinburgh."
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"and these somewhat wiry letters are suitable for the machine process, which would not do justice to letters of more generous design."
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"Italy is contentedly stagnant.|Italy is contentedly stagnant."
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"America has produced a good many showy books, the typography, paper, and illustrations of which are, however, all wrong."
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"oddity rather than rational beauty and meaning being apparently the thing sought for both in the letters and the illustrations."
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" it is obvious that legibility is the first thing to be aimed at in the forms of the letters."
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" instead of ending in the sharp and clear stroke of Jenson's letters."
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" and the elegance and legibility of the ancient more striking than in the Arabic numerals."
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