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COWIE'S PRINTER'S POCKET-BOOK.

bolt running in; the difference of the outer head-bolt may go over the side-stick, and the gutter will then run up between them. The footstick only need be cut exact, and the furniture will completely justify.

Imposing and distributing Letter.

The person to whose turn it falls to impose, must lay up the form for distribution; but as continual disputes arise on this subject, and as it can only be ascertained by comparing the number of pages composed, with the number put in chase by each person, we therefore recommend their keeping an exact account of these pages, which had better be done agreeable to the following plan:—

COMPOSITORS' SCALE FOR IMPOSITION.
Signatures.
Compositors' Names. By whom
imposed.
B
C
D
E
F
G
H

This scale should always be kept by the compositor in the making up; who, when he gives it away to the person that follows him, marks down the number of pages he has made up opposite to the proper signature, and under his