+───────────────────+──────+──────────────+───────+────────+───────────+───────+ │ │MOXON,│ SMITH, │CASLON,│FIGGINS,│THOROWGOOD,│WILSON,│ │ │1683. │ 1755. │ 1841. │ 1841. │ 1841. │ 1841. │ +───────────────────+──────+──────────────+───────+────────+───────────+───────+ │Canon │17 1/2│ 18 and G. P. │ 18 │ 18 │ 18 │ 18 │ │2-line Double Pica │ — │ 20 3/4 │ 20 3/4│ 20 3/4 │ 20 1/2 │ 20 3/4│ │2-line Great Primer│ — │ 25 1/2 │ 25 1/2│ 25 1/2 │ 26 │ 25 1/2│ │2-line English │ 33 │ 32 │ 32 │ 32 │ 32 1/4 │ 32 │ │2-line Pica │ — │ 35 3/4 │ 36 │ 36 │ 36 │ 36 │ │Double Pica │ 38 │ 41 1/2 │ 41 1/2│ 41 1/2 │ 41 │ 41 1/2│ │Paragon │ — │ 44 1/2 │ 44 1/2│ 44 1/2 │ — │ 44 1/2│ │Great Primer │ 50 │ 51 and an r. │ 51 │ 51 │ 52 │ 51 │ │English │ 66 │ 64 │ 64 │ 64 │ 64 1/2 │ 64 │ │Pica │ 75 │ 71 1/2 │ 72 │ 72 1/2 │ 72 │ 72 │ │Small Pica │ — │ 83 │ 83 │ 82 │ 82 │ 83 │ │Long Primer │ 92 │ 89 │ 89 │ 90 │ 92 │ 89 │ │Bourgeois │ — │102 and space.│102 │101 1/2 │ 103 │102 │ │Brevier │ 112 │ 112 1/2 │111 │107 │ 112 │111 │ │Minion │ — │ 128 │122 │122 │ 122 │122 │ │Nonpareil │ 150 │ 143 │144 │144 │ 144 │144 │ │Pearl │ 184 │ 178 │178 │180 │ 184 │178 │ │Diamond │ — │ — │204 │205 │ 210 │204 │ +───────────────────+──────+──────────────+───────+────────+───────────+───────+ This list does not include Trafalgar, Emerald, and Ruby, which, however, were in use before 1841. The first named has disappeared in England, as also has Paragon. The _Printer’s Grammar_ of 1787 mentions a body in use at that time named “Primer,” between Great Primer and English. It is not our purpose to pursue this comparison further or more minutely; nor does it come within the scope of this work to enter into a technical {35} examination of the various schemes which have been carried out abroad, and attempted in this country, to do away with the anomalies in type-bodies, and restore a uniform invariable standard. The above table will suffice as a brief historical note of the growth of these anomalies.