intended to
be, and commences the putting it into Type, in the following manner.
Supposing the first words of the Manuscript to be "The City of London,"
he first selects the Capital Letter T, then the Lower-Case letter h, and
then e, each from their respective compartments; after this he takes
what is called a Space,[2-++] which is used to separate the words from
each other; and thus proceeds until he comes to a Stop, which he selects
in like manner, and places next to the last letter of the last word.
When the frame he holds is filled, he removes the Type thus set into a
larger, first to form Pages, and afterwards, when assembled together, to
form Sheets.

The number of Pages in each Sheet is determined by the size in which the
work is to be printed:--if in Folio, four pages; if in Quarto, eight
pages; if in Octavo, sixteen; if in Duodecimo, twenty-four, &c.

When a sufficient number of Pages have been set to form a Sheet, they
are what is called _Imposed_,[3-*] and the _Forme_ is removed to the
Press-room, where the first impression, technically called the first
Proof, is taken off. This Proof is then transferred to the Reading
room, where it is carefully compared with the original by two persons,
one reading the Manuscript, and the other the Proof-sheet, marking as he
goes on any errors which may have occurred in the Setting. This first
Proof is then given back to the Compositor, who has the forme again laid
on the stone, and having, as it is called, unlocked it,[4-*] proceeds to
make such corrections as by the marks on the proof he is directed to.

When the Type has been made to correspond with the Manuscript, the first
Corrected Proof is struck off, and transmitted to the Author. Should the
Author not have occasion to make many alterations, he may not think it
necessary to require a Second Proof; in that case he writes the word
"Press" upon it, and having been again carefully read in the Office, it
is then Printed off: but should it be otherwise, he writes the word
"Revise" upon it, and it is again, when corrected, transmitted to him;
and this as often as he may think necessary, until he adds the word
"Press," which is the order for Printing off the entire number of copies
of which the Edition is to consist.

Thus, Sheet by Sheet,[5-*] the Printing is proceeded with: and as soon
as one Sheet has been printed off, the Type used in that Sheet is
distributed,[5-+] to be employed in setting up the subsequent parts o