1899.] 
Section II.—Block Prints. 
81 
Contains recension 115, printed once on each page, but, excep¬ 
tionally, standing upright on every page, so that the book can be read 
right through, from page to page, without turning it right round. To 
this arrangement there are only a few exceptions; on 14 pages (out of a 
total of 74 printed ones) the imprint is reversed, and these are clearly 
accidental errors. There are 12 forms, which at first seem not to 
agree with the arrangement, all the imprints on them being reversed. 
But they only require to be folded the other way, and to be turned, 
when they all come right. With respect to these forms, therefore, the 
book has only been carelessly bound. 
No. Y. Book. (Plate X, fig. 2.) 
Same as “Block-print e” in Proceedings. Belongs to M. 3. Size, 
9|x4J inches. Number of forms, 34. Riveted exactly like No. IY. 
Paper, variety Ilia. Many stains, but no burns. Printing similar to 
that in No. IY. 
Contains recension II b, printed twice on each page, so that the two 
impressions stand head to foot, the lower one being complete (13 lines), 
the upper, more or less incomplete (as a rule 6 or 8 lines, i.e ., 11. 13-8, 
or 11. 13-6) owing to want of space. There are only four exceptional 
pages on which they stand foot to foot, viz. form 7, p. 4; f. 17, p. 3 ; 
f. 23, p. 1, and f. 26, p. 1; and these, of course are careless misprints. 
There are also two pages on which there is only one impression; viz. 
form 17, p. 4 and f. 26, p. 2. 
In the ordinary, head-to-foot, arrangement, the pairs of impres¬ 
sions stand upright and reversed on alternate pages. 16 The two 
varieties of arrangement may be represented thus, the parallel lines 
representing the inner edge of the pages or the fold of a form. 
Ordinary. Exceptional. 
The ordinary arrangement is very curious for two reasons : (1) 
because the page commences with the incomplete member of the pair 
of texts, which must have been awkward in reading the book, if it was 
meant for reading; (2) because it compels the reader to begin with 
the left hand pages, that is, at the wrong end of the book, assuming 
15 There are some three or four exceptional pages which do not keep the alter¬ 
nate order. These evidently are misprints. 
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