Pens and Types / or Hints and Helps for Those who Write, Print, Read, Teach, or Learn

by Benjamin Drew

STONE. A table of marble, or other stone, on which forms are imposed, and on which they are placed for correction.

TAKE. That portion of copy which the compositor takes to put in type (or “set up”) at one time.

CHAPTER X.

VARIOUS SIZES OF ROMAN LETTER—MODERN.

VARIOUS SIZES OF ROMAN LETTER—OLD STYLE.

INDEX.

• Abbreviated words, how punctuated, [80].
• Ab­bre­vi­a­tions, Catalogue of fishes, [68].
• Ab­bre­vi­a­tions, mischievous, [26].
• Ab­bre­vi­a­tions of States, Territories, Post-offices, [69].
• “able,” words ending in, [155]–164.
• Accents, [121].
• Acute accent, [121].
• Adams’ or Adams’s, [94].
• Advertisement, Publishers’, [5]–7.
• Aldus Manutius, [75].
• Alterations on Proof-sheet, [30].
• Ancient and modern methods of punctuation compared, [73]–75.
• Apostrophe, [118]–119.
• Attention to revising, [47].
• Authors’ proofs, [47]–49.
• Authors should punctuate their MS., [71].

• Brace, The, [121].
• Brackets, [93], [94], [120].
• Briefs, Lawyers’, [24], [25].
• Bureau or Academy yet wanted to settle all difficulties in syntax orthography, punctuation, etc., [65].
• Bureau, Smithsonian, of the English Language, desiderated, [65], [127].