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next, turning the book right round, one would commence at the back 
of the book, and read consecutively, right through the book, all the 
reversed impressions, which, however, would now of course, stand 
upright towards the reader. The subjoined Woodcut No. 11 illustrates 
this system, and the various modifications in which it is applied. 3 The 
dotted lines in the diagrams signify the lines of type, and the letters a 
and b indicate the beginnings and endings respectively of the impressions 
of the text. In No. I, there are two impressions in each column, stand¬ 
ing foot to foot; those in the upper halves of the pages standing upright, 
while those in the lower halves are reversed. In this book one would 
read, first, consecutively all the impressions in the upper halves of 
the pages, in regular order (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc.), up to the end of tho 
book. Next turning the book right round, in the direction of the arrows, 
and thus bringing the reversed impressions into an upright position, one 
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would read consecutively all the impressions (of the formerly lower 
half-pages) from the back to the beginning of the book, in regular order 
(etc., 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4). The same system, in another, slightly modified form, 
3 The Roman numbers in this and the following Woodcuts refer to tho books 
of the First Set. The diagrams are drawn to the scale of 1 inch in the woodcut 
to 12 inches of the original. 
