Empty Caxa Alta

                                
        
        
        
        
        
                                
        
        
        
        
        

This Spanish case configuration matches the Caxa Alta shown by Juan Joseph Sigüenza y Vera: Mecanismo del arte de la Imprenta (1811), reprinted Almarabu 1992. Note there are six rows of eight boxes in each bay, ie 2 x 48 boxes, whereas the U.K. and U.S. normal Upper case has 2 x 49 boxes. The companion lower case is Caxa Baxa.

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This page was written in 1998 by David Bolton and last updated 27 May 98.