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[1]

I use this term in preference to '82 roman' as there is slight variation in measurement from fount to fount. However, twenty lines of pica measure about 82mm., or six lines to the inch, or twelve point. I hope to record consistent variations from this measure when they arise.

[2]

Isaac, F.S., English Printers' Types of the Sixteenth Century (1936), p. 40.

[3]

Morison, S., and K. Day, The Typographic Book 1450-1935 (1963), plate 110.

[4]

Isaac, F.S., English and Scottish Printing Types 1535-1558, 1552-1558 (1932), fig. 24a. STC 16080.

[5]

Morrison, P.G., Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in . . . STC (1961), p. 22.

[6]

Isaac, English Printers' Types, p. 40.