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Notes on the Table
This table is based on measurements taken from ten eighteenth-century specimens by Caslon, Wilson and Fry. The average of these measurements is given, so that the table is unlikely to be completely accurate with regard to the products of any one foundry.[10] It will be noticed that a few of the body-sizes are not quite the same as those given by Mr J. C. Tarr in a letter to The Library; [11] however, I am convinced that the sizes I give are more accurate than his as far as eighteenth century
It will be seen that one or two text types have the same sized capitals as some of the titling types (e.g., Two Line Great Primer text and Two Line Pica titling), and these correspondences are found even more frequently in the work of each individual founder. Probably both sets of capitals were cast in matrices made from the same punches. A similar technique seems to have been used to supply founts with Small Capitals; the small caps of a given fount often appear to originate from the punches of the capitals of the fount two or three sizes smaller.
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