Long Primer

See also: longprimer

English

Alternative forms

• (dated) long-primer

Etymology

Initially from primer (“prayer book”) from its use in those volumes in Protestant England. The qualifier was subsequently added to distinguish it from great primer and may derive from early editions published on long duodecimo paper.

Proper noun

Long Primer

1. (printing, dated) The size of type between bourgeois and small pica, standardized as 10-point.

Synonyms

• (German contexts): corpus, Garamond

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: Garmond, Dessendiaan
• French: petit-romain (fr)
• German: Korpus (de), Corpus (de), (South German, Austrian, Swiss) Garmond
• Italian: Garamona
• Spanish: entredós (es), filosofía (es)