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The Pentateuch of printing, with a chapter on Judges (1891)

Blades, William, 1824-1890, Reed, Talbot Baines · Chicago : A. C. McClurg and company · leaf 91

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certain pages, which served as signs to showthe sequence of the various sheets. They are by no means peculiar toprinted hooks, nor were they, as some writers assume, invented by theearly printers. The manuscript-writers knew their use long beforeGutenberg, and where a MS. is still intact, nothing… … Leviticus. 57 Catchwords were the first word from the top of a page repeatedbelow the bottom line of the previous page, thus assuring the correct-ness of the collation. After a time the pages, especially if small, were arranged sothat four or eight might be printed at a time. A sheet of…

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