Section II.—Bloch Prints. 
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holds the beginning or the top-line of the text. On the Plates the text 
is represented in the position thus indicated. 
One book, No. Ill, of this Set, as will be shown below, is provided 
with additional small legends, similar to those in Book IV of the First Set. 
No. I. Book. 
Same as “ Block-print (3 ” in Proceedings. Belongs to M. 3. Size, 
6f x4". Number of forms, 38. Riveted with three copper pegs, which 
are held in position by two copper slips, running in front and at the 
hack of the hook, along its longer side, and measuring 6f x § inches. 
Paper, variety Ilia. Fatty stains on many leaves ; no marks of burn¬ 
ing or singeing. • 
Contains recension Ila, printed once on every page, and standing 
upright and reversed on every second or third form ; thus upright on 
forms 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 17, 39, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36,38; 
reversed on forms 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 29, 30, 
33, 34, 37. 
No. II. Book. (Plate IX, fig. 2.) 
Same as “ Block-print a” in Proceedings. Belongs to Gr. 7. Size, 
11J x 7f". Number of forms, 32. Peculiar in having covers of paste¬ 
board, made of four ordinary leaves pasted together. Paper, variety III6. 
Most pages stained, and singed or burned. Bound with three copper nails. 
Contains recension Ila, printed in three columns on each page; 
each column consisting of one impression; accordingly the text three 
times on each page, but reversed on alternate pages, i.e., turned foot 
to foot, similar to the arrangement of book No. IV of the First Set 
(Woodcut No. 11). With the exception of one form, the columns of 
the text are printed parallel to the narrower side of the book, so as to 
turn their foot towards the inner margin of the book, and so close toge¬ 
ther that their edges touch, and sometimes overlap one another. The 
exceptional form is the 22nd. It bears on page 1-3 also impressions of 
recension la of the First Set; and the impressions of the two different 
texts, indioated in the subjoined diagrams by the letters dc ba and the 
numerals 321 respectively, are arranged as follows; the inner margin of 
the page being indicated by parallel lines. 
1st page. (Plate IX), 2nd page. 
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