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 times approved, in the letters of a good penman, or in engraving, or in the types of job printers, is not-tolerated in the text-types of books, which must be precise.

The assortment of characters known to printers as a font of roman book-type requires the engraving of 150 punches: 29 large capitals, including &, Æ, and Œ; 29 small capitals, including &,, and ; 33 lower-case characters, including ﬁ, ﬂ, ﬀ, ﬃ, ﬄ, æ, and œ; 19 figures and fractions; 22 points, references, and signs; 18 other characters. Accents and the special signs required for some books are not furnished in the regular assortment.

These characters are divided into six classes of irregular heights of face: (1) Full-bodied letters, like Q and j—that occupy the entire body of the