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The 77-5s machines, others, are manufacturcd by Messrs, R. and Co., arc 1 number two, and Lorzer than those we have seen. In addition to printing, they cut, fold, and paste the pages, the papers out complete, except for the cdge-trimming, Here you see o machine which takes in, at two separate rolls of white and green paper respectively, and turns out at a third side complete cut, covered, and pasted copies of 7750y at the rate of somaething like seven o sccond. We have scen how the stereotyped plates are pre- pared. These, when fixed upon the evlinders, arc inked by a svstem of twenty-lfour roflers to cach eylinder, I'he paper, damped, s controlled m its passage to the eylinder by an automatic hrake, whic N ke Ps Il Lo its proper- timed pace. T he cover is printed i what is, das aomatter of fact, o smaller machine und cover of the Targer one, and joins the white paper at the place where the covering takes place. As the paper runs through the machine at s pasted i (he proper places from o paste-trough, wherein revolyves a o ovhmder, from the surlace of which the paste i taken and applicd by ke The folding is cifeeted by the paper passing over asertes of triangular metal frames, apes downward. s the paper over the simooth surface of the e it narrows towards the apexs, and the paper doubles in the crease thus formed. The cover s attached in the

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sime way that the mner feaves are pasted cether, and so, from cach of these (wo I‘ngg machmes cach a double machine in il\( I hundreds of complete copies of the paper fal) cvery minute, numbered on the mduatm' at e Sside. In another part of the roonm is observed the apparatus upon which the paper s re-wound and at the same time wetted, ready to receive the impression. Above, a balcony stretehes along the wall, from which visiting members of the pul)h( may watch the operations helow.

After this there is only the publishing office, and the copy o 7i-Bits or T SrrAND Macayzine is aunched upon the outer worlde T'his ofhee, on the around- Hoor, 15 a ureat L\‘l'l})(:(_l room, or (wo asoyou please, one part (\t(n(lm'f along the Foxeter \Llut front, and the ()thu reae hm;_; away forward to Southampton Street. Between forty and Oty persons are cimployved m this department, under the diection o Mreo Harvison, the publisher, who, i the precedimge ilustration, s o be seen standimg by the window with his hand on the tables From this place go, cach Thursday, the many hundreds of thousands of copies of 7o 1y which

ind their way nto every corner of the world ;. and frome here, on an ordimary month, esue out g tons of T STRAND MGz

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