Long pages

Pages of more than the proper length. Before fastening in the quoins the compositor should carefully ascertain whether the pages of each quarter are of the same length; for even the difference of a lead will cause them to hang. To test their exactness, place the ball of each thumb against the centre of the footstick, raising it a little with the pressure, and if the ends of both pages rise equally with the stick it is a proof they will not bind. A similar plan should be adopted in lockiug-up newspaper pages, as regards the columns.