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Sorting through my bookcase yesterday, I came across "The Golden Treasury of Longer Poems - selected and edited by Ernest Rhys" published in 1939 and reprinted in 1950.  This book is my Dad's copy, purchased for "3 and 3" (3 shillings & 3 pence) on  8/4/55 and is suitably annotated throughout in his neat, tiny handwriting. I think that if it was a font on a computer 'app' it would be size 8 ... without magnification of the screen or document. How he managed to write so clearly and accurately amazes me ; mainly with a fountain/cartridge pen and ink and only much later with a ballpoint or 'Biro', as we called them. I still do. My grandfather's handwriting was even smaller than this and I remember him clearly using a magnifying glass as he wrote - but this is a post for another time. Of course, once the Longer Treasury was in my hands it stayed there a while as I refreshed my mind on Gibson, Binyan Byron and many other of the "greats...