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The Type In The Oxford Bible

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
March
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Statistics have a fascination f or rnany people, wlio wiJl be interested in learning that there are 778,746 words ia the authorized versión of the Bi ble and 8,506,483 letters, inoluding JE'b. These figures, says The Periodical, the mouthly journal of announoements issued by the Clarendon press, relate to a text Bible and are independent of verse figures and Sgures ( if nsed) in chapter headings. To Ostimate the total number of separate bits or pieces of metal whioh together znake up the types of au Oxford refernce Bible there may then be added fully 1,100,000 letters, figures, points, spaces, etc, in the text and 900,000 in the marginal notes, making a total of ■5, 666, 482 pieces in all.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News