Note 143 — Early Typography. CHAPTER V.

This may sometimes have been owing to a scarcity of capital letters. An amusing story is told of a jobbing printer, who was seen printing the label “Lodgings to let,” in gold capital letters on a blue ground, with the second G left out. Upon the omission being pointed out to him, he said “Pshaw! I should like to know why a printer should not spell Lodgings with one G, when he has but that one in his fount!”