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 102 HISTORIC PRINTING TYPES. Light faces of round form. Robert Ste- phens, preface to Thesaurus of 1572. For illustrated works that are widely leaded and have broad margins, the large and light round face, of which an illustration is given on this page, is frequently used with excellent effect. It is not a type that can be wisely used in crowded space. YOU are mistaken, reader, if you imagine this work (except a few portions) to have been written in any other way than by the printer's clock. That is to say : as typographical works are subjected to stip- ulated daily tasks, I bound myself to pro- duce a stated quantity of copy, which had to be done at a fixed hour. E"or was the time, short as it was, allowed for the task, exempt from other occupations and business of a varied nature, relating to my professional and domestic concerns. At times I had to lay aside my pen ten times in one hour. Pica Light Face, from the foundry of Farmer, Little & Co., New York. For the catalogue work of jobbing printers a still broader face is in favor, of which an illustration is given on the next page. But this is a type not allowed in standard books. In the composition of book titles, the inflexibility of the Roman capital has been found an annoyance. Where a