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Eighteenth Century
Harry Carter, Fournier on Typefounding; the Text of the Manuel Typographique (1764-1766) (London: Soncino Books, 1930). On page xxxv ff, a "Table of Body-Sizes" lists the English old body and Fournier name along with the equivalent in English inches and pica points. The names are entered in the correlated table using Carter's highly accurate English inch equivalents.
Philip Gaskell, "Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century," Studies in Bibliography 5 (1952-53): 147-151. On page 151, Gaskell records sixteen text types by name along with the body size in pica points (column B) and a twenty-line measurement in column C. Common names are entered into the table using his measurements in column C.
Talbot B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries (London: E. Stock, 1887); rev. ed. by A. F. Johnson (Folkestone: Dawsons, 1974). Drawing upon various "specimen-books of the eighteenth century" Reed presents a table on page 32 giving eighteen different names of type from England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Spain along with the respective pica point size. Derivations of these names are treated on pp. 35-40 of his history.
Allan Stevenson, Catalogue of the Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, Vol. 2, Part 1: Introduction to Printed Books, 1701-1800 (Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, 1961). To create his "Common Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century" on p. ccxxviii, Stevenson relies on many different sources. His ten-line millimeter measurements have been doubled and the eight English common names entered into the correlated table directly. Then, for six other countries, including Sweden,[2] he provides the modern pica points and the common names for nine more type sizes. Again, these names have been entered into the table based on the stated Pica point equivalent.
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