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Section II.—Bloch Prints. 
No. VII. Book. 
Belongs to M. 8. Found at Kiang Tuz. Size, 16|*7". Number of 
forms, 20 ; some of them worn through at the back into separate leaves. 
Paper, variety III d. Fairly clean and well preserved. Riveted with 
three copper pegs. 
Text printed in one column on each page, running parallel to the 
longer side of the book, and consisting of twelve impressions of the 
formula. As a rule the columns stand upright and reversed on alter¬ 
nate pages, there being only 13 exceptions (in a total of 74 printed 
pages), probably misprints. 
No. VIII. Book. (Plate XI.) 
Belongs to Gr. 7. Size, 8|x5|". Number of forms, 32. Has 
exceptionally seven blank pages both at the beginning and end of the 
book; that is, printing commences on the 8tli page from the beginning, 
and stops on the 8th page from the end. Paper, variety III5. Book in 
rather bad preservation, and print so faint as to be illegible in many 
pages. Bound with two twists of paper. 
Contains both recensions, Ya and Yb, but the latter only on the 
outside pages of forms 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 30, and on the inside 
pages of forms 14, 23, 29, 17 also on the first (outside) page of form 
24; altogether on 25 only out of a total of 114 pages. Curiously 
enough on the fourth (outside) page of the 24th form there are printed 
two formulas of the First Set. 
Both recensions are printed in two columns on each page, running 
parallel to the narrower side of the book, and consisting each of three 
(very exceptionally four) impressions in the case of recension Va, and 
of two (exceptionally three) impressions in the case of recension Yb. The 
a a £ space is not sufficient for the exceptional number 
^ J 4 ^ of impressions; accordingly in those exceptional 
^ 55,4 ^ cases one or two lines, from either extremity, are 
p 0 0 omitted. As a rule the columns stand turned in 
SJ* ^ opposite directions on alternate pages, as shown in 
^ ^ ^ the margin. 
Page 4 of form 24 is a curiosity. It is shown on Plate XI. The leaf 
is badly damaged by burns. On one side (page 3) it shows the formula 
of the Fifth Set in the usual arrangement of two columns, with two 
impressions in each, running parallel to the narrower side of the book. 
On the reverse side (page 4) formulas C and E, in the recensions I g 
H These too become outside pages, if the fold of the forms is turned the other 
way. 
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