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The Invention of Printing

Note 381 — XXVI

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It agrees exactly with the old French standard (of 1723) for height of type, which was 10 1 ⁄ 2 geometric lines, or, by modern French measure, 24 millimetres. Fournier, Manuel typographique, vol. I, p. 125.

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