Bob,

The text body is in 10/14 Adobe Garamond (10 pt type with 14 pts 
leading). Unusually large leading, partly because the line length on the 
(new) 7 x 10 page size is almost an inch longer than in all our previous 
books. The extract size is 9/12 and the extract within extract size is 
7/11½. It's our impression that the text looks as if it were in a much 
smaller point size than it actually is because the type itself is very 
small-bodied. Compare, for instance, any volume in the _Letters,_ which 
are in 10/13 Linotype Plantin, or _Huck Finn,_//which is in 10/13 Trump 
Mediaeval. Both much easier to read. The forthcoming "reader's edition" 
of the Autobiography goes back to our usual page size (6 by 9) and 
boosts the text body size to 11/14.

Cheers,
Bob

On 11/15/2011 4:54 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> People ask me about the 2010 autobiography every now and then, and one thing they ask about is the point size. My guess is that the body of the autobiography is 7- or 8-point, and the quoted articles within the text are 6- or 7-point – that is, the quoted articles are one point smaller than the body, whichever it is. Can somebody here confirm that or give me the correct point sizes?
>
> -- Bob G.
>
> P.S. I’m sure it was mentioned here before, but I can’t recall when the second and third volumes are due. Can someone refresh my memory on that too?
>