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Nineteenth Century
Giambattista Bodoni, Manuale Tipografico, 2 vol. (Parma: Presso la Vedova, 1818). Bodoni's work provides twenty-two "Serie di Caratteri Latini" or common Italian names for type sizes on pages 1-144 of volume one. Twenty-line millimeter measurements have been taken directly from the original and the names entered into the table. Although several other works, such as De Vinne, base their information on Bodoni, he seems to have worked "only to please himself"[3] and must be approached with caution. See Appendix A for an indication of some of the problems encountered measuring his types.
Charles H. Timperley, The Printer's Manual (London: H. Johnson, 1838; reprint ed., English Bibliographical Sources, No. 7. London: Gregg Press, 1965). Comparable names for nineteen different sizes are provided for England, France, Germany, and Holland on page 56. A second table gives the number of lines to a foot for eighteen different bodies; these have been divided into twelve inches to provide the decimal equivalent, and the common names have been added to the correlated table.
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