small pica
Britishnoun
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The type resembles our small pica, and the paper has the water-mark Auvergne 1749.
From Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
The notes were printed in double columns in small pica, the text itself in double pica.
From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
Above eleven-point, or small pica, however, increase in the size of type becomes a matter not of hygiene, but simply of esthetics.
From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman
His last work was a corrected edition of the Welsh Bible issued in small pica by the Bible Society.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
Printed on small pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay.
From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Scott, Walter, Sir
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