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30       SUPERIOR COPPER-MIXED TYPE.
HERALD SERIES.
Le                    5% POINT No. 16              (Agate)
PRINTING is the art of producing impressions, from characters or
figures, on paper or any other substance. There are several distinct
branches of this important art-as the printing of books with movable
types, the printing of engraved copper and steel plates, and the taking
of impressions from stone, called lithographing. We have now to de-
scribe the printing of books or sheets with movable types, generally
called letter-press printing, and which may undoubtedly be esteemed
the greatest of all human inventions. The art of printing is of compar-
atively modern origin, only four hundred years having elapsed since
the first book was issued from the press; yet we have proofs that the
principles upon which it was ultimately developed, existed among the
ancient Assyrian nations. Entire and undecayed bricks fWm the famed
city and tower of Babylon have been found with vrious symbolic figures and
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6 POINT No. 16           (Nonpareil)
PRINTING is the art of producing impressions, from characters
or figures, on paper or any other substance. There are several
distinct branches of this important art-as the printing of books or
sheets with movable types, the printing of engraved copper and
steel?lates, and the tang of impressions from stone, called litho-
graphini. We have now to describe the printing of books or
sheets with movable types, generally called letter-press printing,
and which may undoubtedly be esteemed the greatest of ai1 human
inventions. The art of printing.is of comparatively modern
origin, only four hundred years having elapsed since the first
book was issued from the press; yet we have proofs that the prin-
ciples upon which it was ultimately developed existed among the
ancient Assyrian nations. Entire and undecayed bricks of the famed
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7 POINT NO. 16                                    (Minion)
PRINTING is the art of producing impressions, from charac-
ters or figures, on paper or any other substance. There are
several distinct branches of this important art-as the print-
ing of books with movable types, the printing of engraved
copper and steel plates and the taking of impressions from
stone, called lithographing. We have now to describe the
printing of books or sheets with movable types, generally
called letter-press printing, and which may undoubtedly be
esteemed the greatest of all human inventions. The art of
printing is of comparatively modern origin, only four hundred
years having elapsed since the first book was issued from the press;
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1284567890       Lower ease, a to z, 1S ems.  1234567890
For prices of Body Type see page 4.