Laying down sheets

In the warehouse, this term is used to denote the placing the printed sheets of a work upon the gathering table in their proper order for the purpose of gathering them together into complete books. The first sheet in the gathering is laid down at the extreme end of the table at the left hand, and the succeeding sheets follow to the right in regular order, with the signature to the front of the table. The person who lays them down should run the signature page over in each heap to see that they all lay the same way, and have not been turned in knocking up or piling away, which, when it happens and passes undiscovered, causes a great deal of trouble in collating.