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OCR? artefacts in OED online #12

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in entry logotype there are also a few more of those {...}, most are easily fixable as the OED lists them however,

a1816 Earl Stanhope in Hansard Typographia (1825) 477, I have deemed it advisable to contrive a new pair
 of composing cases‥introducing a new set of double letters [these were on, of, to, re, an, th, in, se; they 
were not printed as ligatures], which I denominate logotypes; and rejecting altogether the double letters 
ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, ſt, [ctlig], formerly occupying room in the cases, but used so seldom that [etc.]. 

there is that [ctlig] which os clearly some form artefact and unlikely to be the original text.

Luckily the Internet Archive happens to have a scan of said title Typographia but it is a bit hard to tell whether that is a simple c or a c with something else, the OED seems to suggest c with ligature.

here is the html in this version altogether the double letters ff, fi, {fllig}, {ffilig}, {ffllig}, {stlig}, {ctlig}, formerly occupying room in the cases,

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