1899.] 
Section II.—Block Prints. 
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Section II.—BLOCK PRINTS. 
General Remarks. 
The following is a summary of the Block-prints in the collection : 
I. 
First Set 
comprising 
8 
books. 
II. 
Second Set 
»> 
6 
III. 
Third Set 
3 
1Y. 
Fourth Set 
j» 
8 
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V. 
Fifth Set 
5 J 
8 
VI. 
Sixth Set 
JJ 
3 
»> 
VII. 
Seventh Set 
5> 
6 
VIII. 
Eighth Set 
>> 
1 
IX. 
Ninth Set 
>5 
2 
y> 
Total ... 45 books. 
With the exception of one, the block prints all alike resemble 
__ European books in their style of binding 1 . 1 A 
Style of Binding. , / , . c , , , . ., ® 
sheet of paper is folded in the middle to 
form two leaves, with four pages. A number of such folded sheets or 
“ forms ” are then fastened together, along the line of the fold, to make 
up a book. For the purpose of fastening them, they are, as a rule, simply 
laid one upon the other; but there are three books, all belonging to the 
Third Set, in which they are not laid one upon the other and outside 
the other, but placed one within the other so that the entire book forms 
but one folded bundle. Occasionally also, as in No. I of the First Set, 
a double form is met with, made up of two folded sheets, placed one 
within the other and thus consisting of four leaves or eight pages. 
The fastening is done in three ways: either by thread (2), or by 
twists of paper (12), or by pegs of copper (30). 2 The last-mentioned 
method is the commonest: the relative frequency is indicated by 
1 See also my Note on some Block-prints in the Proceedings , Asiatic Society of 
Bengal , for April 1898, p. 124. 
8 I may add that Mr. C. Bendall informs me (in a letter dated the 1st October, 
1897) that the British Museum possesses a book in which “ the peg is of wood, not 
metal.’ 
