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[1] and may derive from early editions published on long duodecimo paper.[2]

Proper noun

Long Primer

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

Synonyms

(German contexts): corpus, Garamond

Translations

Dutch: Garmond, Dessendiaan
French: petit-romain
German: Korpus (de), Corpus (de), (South German, Austrian, Swiss) Garmond

Italian: Garamona
Spanish: entredós, filosofía (es)

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "primer, n.¹". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2007.
The Practice of Typography, p. 65.

[1] Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "primer, n.¹". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2007.

[2] The Practice of Typography, p. 65.