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Colophon
This book was printed by letterpress from type cast
on
the Linotype by Heritage Printers, Inc. of
Charlotte,
North Carolina. The typeface is
Baskerville, a design by
John Baskerville
(1706-1775), English printer and type-
founder.
Linotype Baskerville is a weight-for-weight
and
curve-for-curve copy of Baskerville's,
celebrates
printing type. The paper for the
cutting was a com-
plete font of
(approximately) 14 point, cast from Bas-
kerville's own matrices—exhumed at Paris,
France, in
1929. The paper is 70-pound
Glatfelter, an acid-free
paper with a useful
life of 300 years.
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