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<p class="MsoNormal">I initially tried sending this message to “dcrml-bounces” and it didn’t seem to go through. Sorry if I am posting to the wrong address.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am cataloging a book by Robert Boyle published in 1669. It was printed by Henry Hall in Oxford. I’ve had some difficulty discerning the typography of v and w in the work. This printer had a capital W in roman type, though in italic he
put two capital v’s together. The book is mostly in Roman. My first impression was that he had a lower-case w that just looked like two v’s put together. But I’m finding other instances where there is a small distance between two v’s for a lower-case w. So
do you think I should interpret all lower-case w’s that I transcribe as two v’s: vv? Is that a common thing in books of that age, some variability in how w’s were created?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Actually, I notice that even in Roman capitals on the title page, it is sometimes VV rather than W. The W seems to be used in “medium-size” type. If type is small or very large it’s vv or VV.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The second volume of the work was printed by Miles Flesher, and he seemed to use w’s in all positions, upper- or lower-case. These two volumes will have separate bibliographic records.
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