The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on Title-pages, with Numerous Illustrations in Facsimile and Some Observations on the Early and Recent Printing of BooksCentury Company, 1904 - 485 páginas |
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abbreviations apostrophe arabic figures beginning Bible blank cæsura capital letters Century Standard Webster chapter Chevillier clause colon comma Comparative list composition compositor compound consonant correct curaçoa dash dictionary digitalin diphthongize distinction divided edition editor English errors extract fault foot-notes frequently gaily gaily grammar hyphen inclose indention inserted irregular italic legend lines leveled leveled list of variable manuscript marks matter method narrow measure needed nouns orcin ordinary orpharion Oxford Divisions paragraph parentheses phrase piccadil picrotoxin points preferred printed printing-house pronunciation proof proof-reader proper names punctuation purpurin quadrat quercitrin quotation quotation-marks quote-marks quoted reader roman lower-case roman numerals rule running titles salicin sarmentose selected semicolon sentence separate side-notes small capitals small type sometimes sorbin Standard Webster Worcester style suberin subheadings syllable taboret tachylyte teasel thin space tion title-pages typography usually variable spellings vowel wapenshaw weregild writer written xanthophyll zincite
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Página 219 - Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest: because I said I am the Son of God?
Página 282 - ... be at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the sentence.