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Long Primer^¹

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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 · longprimer · long primer

dated The size of type between bourgeois and small pica, standardized as 10-point.
Similar: corpus, Garamond

long primer^²

noun

alternative Alternative form of Long Primer The difference to you of treacle on a marble background is scarcely greater than that of printers' ink on newspaper to me. But anything smaller than pica I do not read with comfort, and below long primer I cannot read at all.

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Español	entredós, filosofía
Français	petit-romain
Deutsch	Korpus, Corpus
Italiano	Garamona

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@misc{long_primer_2026,
  title = {long primer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/long%20primer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}