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Definition of great primer

great primer
Primer Prim"er, n. [Originally, the book read at prime, the first canonical hour. LL. primae liber. See Prime, n., 4.] 1. Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction. The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. --Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner. As he sat in the school at his prymer. --Chaucer. 3. (Print.) A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica. Note: Great primer type.

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- Great primer is a large font size (18 points) that was used in the printing of English Bibles and other large-format books, leading to its other name of...
- (1) Great Primer (18 pt, 6.35 mm), (2) English (14 pt, ≈4.939 mm), (3) Pica (12 pt, ≈4.233 mm), (4) Small Pica (11 pt, ≈3.881 mm), (5) Long Primer (10 pt...
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- Liveship Traders Trilogy Paragon (typography), the size of type between great primer and double pica, standardized as 20-point Paragon (diamond), a diamond...
- office was well supplied with good type in all sizes, from nonpareil to great primer, and he had a fine range of initial letters, ornaments and borders. He...
- Knew it Was You works as a wonderful career retrospective for fans or a great primer for newcomers, the real power of the piece lies in the juxtaposition...
- thesis). Royal Holloway. Retrieved 14 May 2017. Leonidas, Gerry (2002). "A primer on Gr**** type design". In Berry, John D. (ed.). Language Culture Type: International...
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