Zetten en drukken in de achttiende eeuw

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"Typesetting and Printing in the Eighteenth Century" is the first edition of a never before published manuscript by typographer Bram de Does. The shaded caps used on the jacket and the title page were cut by Jacques-FrançoisRosartat Enschedé in 1759.

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The calligraphic lb ligature – an abbreviation for pound, in Latin: libra – doesn't quite match the text. This symbol is included in Unicode as ℔ (l b bar symbol).

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