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Dr. Hoernle— Antiquities from Central Asia. [Extra No. 1, 
This would seem to have been the trial-form, employed to discover by 
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could be crowded on to one page. The usual arrange- 
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No. III. Book. (Plate X, fig. 1.) 
Same as “ Block-print y ” in Proceedings. Belongs to M. 3. Size, 
ll|x4§ inches. Number of forms, 40. Bound with three twists of 
paper. Paper, variety Ilia. A few fatty stains and burns ; on the 
whole fairly clean. Printing ends on the penultimate page of the 
last form, instead of the ante-ante-penultimate page as usual. 
Contains recension Ila; there being two impressions of it on each 
page, placed foot to foot, the upper one being complete (12 lines), the 
lower more or less incomplete (as a rule 10 lines), the arrangement 
being similar to that in Book No. I of the First Set. There are only 
four exceptional forms, on which the impressions are placed head to 
foot; viz., forms 6, 12, 17 (1st, 2nd, 4th pp.), and 31 (2nd and 4th pp.). 
Seeing that there are 40 forms (or 156 printed pages), these few excep¬ 
tions (13 pages) are evidently accidental misprints. As in the case of 
book No. I of the First Set, this “ foot-to-foot ” arrangement of the-text, 
seems to be a clear indication as to which is to be taken as its top-line. 
Within the horizontal intervals, in the middle of the page, additional 
small legends (similar to those of No. IV of the First Set), consisting 
of 4 to 6 letters, are inserted, running in the same direction as the text, 
but of somewhat larger size, and apparently written by hand. They 
are all shown on Plate II of the Proceedings for 1898. As in the case 
of Book No. IY of the First set, they do not occur on every page, 
but only on the two outside pages of a form. Moreover, in nearly 
one-half of the forms (viz,, 19 out of 40) they do not occur at all. 
No. IY. Book. 
Same as “ Block-print 8 ” in Proceedings . Belongs to M. 3. Size, 
8x5| inches. Number of forms, 40. Riveted with three copper 
pegs, the guards being small oblongs, 1 or 1J x f", Paper, variety 
Ilia; on the whole fairly clean, no burns. Printing rather indistinct, 
owing to the inferior quality of the paper, on which the ink has a 
tendency to run, so that the imprint occasionally shows on the other 
side, in which case sometimes the reverse page is not printed at all. 
