19th Century Greek book

[dezcom]

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If anyone is interested in seeing old Greek type in books from 1881 and 1903, here is a link to my Flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dezcom/sets/72157616479131055/

We were going through my mothers old books and this is one of the things I found. It must have been handed down to her.

ChrisL

[Nick Shinn]

Thanks Chris.
I note the consistent use of medial beta.
The italics are interesting, especially mu and rho.
Any more samples of italic?

[dezcom]

There were very little italics. That is why I posted that page. You can see the line at the top is letterspaced in the more typical way of that era. There was a tiny bit of bold as well. I will keep looking through it but the book is in pretty bad shape and is crumbling :-(

ChrisL

[oprion]

Hmm something about the twelve apostles.
Very pretty!
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[dezcom]

Yes! The newer book was an anthology with both religious and historic material. The older book was published shortly after the Greeks had finally reclamed their independence from the Ottomans. My Greek is pretty lousy so I am not that good of a translator.

ChrisL