small pica
Britishnoun
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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
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
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
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
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)
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