Provincial News Upper Case

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1
4

1
2

3
4

1
3

2
3

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fist

1
8

3
8

5
8

7
8

1
6

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This English layout is given by Southward: Practical Printing (1882, and still in 5th ed 1900) as that used by several provincial news offices, as an improvement on the Old lay. The caps and small caps have moved to the bottom rows, nearer the compositor's hand, and the figures and some of the ligatures are in the Lower case. The lay provides for fractions, but not for accents, these not being much required in news work.

The boxes with A, etc are small caps. The box ¦ is really a single, and ¦¦ a double, dagger. The boxes { and «» are really middle, top and bottom of a 3 piece brace. The ---- are em rules.

The empty configuration is the normal Upper of Moxon (1683), Luckombe (1771), Johnson (1824), Southward (1882), Mackellar (1885), Barnhart Bros & Spindler's News (1890s), Miller & Richard (1897), Stephenson Blake & Co (1922), Caslon (1925) etc.

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This page was written in 1997 by David Bolton and last updated 9 March 2006.