At 04:49 PM 1/28/99 -0500, Ned Heite wrote:
>I'm currently testing this proposition in a study of the type faces in a
>job printer's shop. I have found that most of the type faces in the shop
>were introduced when the shop's owner was a young man. After he was 30
>years old, his only new type faces were acquired to meet a customer's
>requirements.
 
Type faces *do* wear out.  They also may have been acquired used rather
than new.  Finally, I suspect you may find that this ground has been
explored by Bibliographers already....
 
Mary Ellin D'Agostino
 
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