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For generously sharing what they know, the author must thank Nicolas Barker, the British Library; John Bidwell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; Nancy B. Richardson, HBO & Company; Diana M. Thomas, UCLA GSLIS; Thomas Tanselle, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; and David L. Vander Meulen, University of Virginia. The author also wishes to thank Linda Kincheloe, Getty Conservation Institute, for assisting with the formatting of the tables.

Fredson Bowers, Principles of Bibliographical Description (Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1949; repr. 1962, 1986), pp. 300-306, 444-446; G. Thomas Tanselle, "The Identification of Type Faces in Bibliographical Description," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 60 (1966): 185-202.

Readers may wish to note the following five Swedish type sizes which have not been added to the table due to printing limitations: Borgis (63 mm for 20 lines), Korpus (71), Cicero (85), Tertia (113), and Text (141).

Interview with Nicolas Barker by the author, 14 May 1987 in Los Angeles.

G. Thomas Tanselle, "Tolerances in Bibliographical Description," The Library, 5th series, 23 (1968): 1-12. Nicolas Barker estimates a 3% variation due to paper stretch and most severe for measurements more than 100 millimeters (Interview).

Robert Proctor, An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum (London: British Museum, (1898-1906; repr. 1960), vol. 1, p. 13.

Updike, Printing Types, p. 35. Readers should also consult Richard L. Hopkins's Origin of the American Point System for Printers' Type Measurement (Terra Alta, West Virginia: Hill & Dale Press, 1976) for an excellent discussion and bibliography on the size of pica.

Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, rev. ed., p. 32. According to Harry Carter in Fournier on Typefounding, "the traditional 'Fournier point', long used in Belgium, was .013728 English inch" (p. xxxv).