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a hand-press, a few of which machines are here to be observed, kept only for proof pur- poses. When all the matter s corrected in this form, and all the illustration-blocks pre- pared of them proper size and shape. the tvpe and the blocks, 1f anv, are “made un” into pages, being fived inoiron fames, callod chases. ALl this is very quickly said, and scems very simple, but numbers of cor-

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rections and re- vises are made, and much labour, patienee, and in- cenuity expended in fixing the proper sizes of the Hustrations, and

fitting them to their proper places.

When at o last the pages are “made up T and

(rmly serewedanda wedged into therr chases, the work s but begun. More proofs are taken and cor- rected, and the chases, with therr contents, then go to the clectrotyping depart- ment, at the top of the building. This work- shop s the divtiest and the most interesting m the'place. "The dirt cannot be helped it s clean dirt, so to speak and is simply sraphite, or- powdered black-lead, which, being an absolute essential to the process, gets every- where.

But fisst Tet us suppose the madeup page