Other plans for forty-eight pages
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Twenty-four pages in three separate sections of 8 pages each can be made by triplicating in one chase Scheme 15 or 16 for 8 pages. The sheet for Scheme 39 turns on the long cross.
When
perfected
and each section turn on the long
it is
cut in six pieces, as marked,
folded as a regular 16mo. Its cross, for printing on the second is
compels a new feed-edge of paper to be presented to the grippers a treatment always objecTo impose the pages to tionable to the pressman. side,
turn on the short cross gives extra trouble to the binder, and risks imperfect workmanship: the upper and lower tiers of 16 pages each must be treated as widely separated but regular sixteens, as in Scheme 19 the middle tier of 16 must be ;
cut at the head, to fold by consecutive parallels.
For 48 pages in two sections of 24 pages each, but in one chase, repeat on each half of the short cross the imposition of Scheme 37, or treat them as the lower two thirds of Scheme 44. It is not an
imposition to be recommended. scheme for 48 pages in one chase, to be folded together in one section, is quite impracticable even
A
common pamphlet on very thin paper. It is never selected for a library book, for it cannot be folded neatly or be trimmed with true margins. A section of 32 with inset of 16 is clumsy. It is for a
better to put the pages in two parts of 24 pages each, one to be inset. For all side-stitched little
pamphlets prefer thin sections.
The paper cover