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Textual Criticism and Deconstruction by G. Thomas Tanselle
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Archival Standards in Documentary Editing by Ronald J. Zboray
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Cataloging Rules
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MARC AMC
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Authority Work
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Subject Assigning
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Two Lollard Codices and Lollard Book-Production by Ralph Hanna III
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Appendix: Brief Descriptions
  
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"The Final Revision of Bonduca": An Unpublished Essay by W. W. GREG by Grace Ioppolo
  
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The Problem of Semi-Substantive Variants: An Example from the Shakespeare-Fletcher Henry VIII by Fredson Bowers
  
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Font Analysis as a Bibliographical Method: The Elizabethan Play-Quarto Printers and Compositors by Adrian Weiss
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First Stage
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Second and Third Stages
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Appendix I
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Appendix II
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Appendix III
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British Plays, 1697-1737: Premieres, Datings, Attributions, and Publication Information by William J. Burling
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I. Plays Hitherto Unknown or Believed to be Unperformed
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II. Unnoted First Performances in The London Stage
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IV. New Attribution Evidence
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V. Previously Unknown Publications
  
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William Robinson, Contributor to Fielding's Champion by Frederick G. Ribble
  
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From the Monthly Magazine, and British Register: Notes on Milton, Pope, Boyce, Johnson, Sterne, Hawkesworth, and Prior by Arthur Sherbo
  
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The Manuscript of Wilkie Collins's No Name by William Baker
  
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Lawrence, Garnett, and Sons and Lovers: An Exploration of Author-Editor Relationship by Mark S. Sexton
  
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John Greenleaf Whittier in the Critic, 1881-1892 by Arthur Sherbo
  
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Gilbert Sorrentino's Revisions of The Sky Changes by David Leon Higdon and Robert F. Sheard
  
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Correlated Type Sizes and Names for the Fifteenth Through Twentieth Century by John Richardson Jr.
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Background and Sources
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Fifteenth Century
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Sixteenth Century
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Seventeenth Century
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Eighteenth Century
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Method of Calculation
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Use of the Tables
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With Millimeter Measurements
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Common Names and Dates
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More on the Compositors of the First Edition of Don Quixote, Part II by R. M. Flores
  
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Notes on Contributors
  
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
  
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PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT
  
WINNERS OF THE 1989 STUDENT AWARDS IN BOOK COLLECTING
  
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Twentieth Century

Theodore Low De Vinne, The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the Point System, the Names, Sizes, Styles, and Prices of Plain Printing Types, 2nd ed. (New York: Century Company, 1902). His Plain Printing Types contains the common names for twenty-seven American and English types. Their respective point equivalency size is found on page 54, followed by the names of another twenty-seven French and German types and their Corps (i.e., didot) size. Finally, he draws upon Bodoni's Manuale Tipografico (1818) for the Italian names which are accompanied by the equivalent Spanish and Dutch names on page 56. In addition, the "Relation of Different Bodies of Type to each other and to standard linear measures [i.e., in inches, feet, and square feet] by the Bruce System of Geometrical Progression" appears on page 148. The discussion of common names appears in Plain Printing Types on pages 62-68. Common names are entered into the correlated table using De Vinne's pica and didot point equivalents.

Lucien A. Legros and John C. Grant, Typographical Printing-Surfaces; The Technology and Mechanism of Their Production (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1916) provides a handy "Table 6—Comparative Table giving the names of [23 different] English and foreign type and their dimensional relationships in Fournier, Didot, and standard points, in inches, and in millimetres." The pica-to-inches and the didot-to-inches columns are quite accurate, matching the correlated table almost exactly even to the third or fourth place.

Daniel B. Updike, Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use, A Study in Survivals. 3rd ed., 2 vol. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962). On page 27, Updike presents a table labelled "Names of Sizes of Type in Various Countries." Covering eighteen pica point sizes, ranging from 4.5 to 48-point, he lists the equivalent names in England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain. The common names are entered into the correlated table using the pica point measurements.

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