+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |DATE OF READING. | | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | |SIGNATURES. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------+ | | |NAMES OF WORKS. | | | | +---------+---------+--------+ | | | |SENT OUT.|RETURNED.|READ FOR| | | | | | | PRESS. | +--------+----+---------------------------+---------+---------+--------+ | 1878. | | | 1878. | 1878. | 1878. | | May 2 | 11 |Decorative Printing | May 2 | May 4 | May 5 | | ” 4 | 23 |American Printer, (Revised | ” 4 | ” 5 | ” 6 | | | | Edition) | | | | | ” 6 | 20 |Specific Heat Tables | ” 8 | ” 9 | ” 9 | | ” 10 | 2 |The Great Exhibition | ” 10 | ” 12 | ” 13 | | ” 27 | 13 |Masterpieces of European | ” 29 | ” 30 | ” 30 | | | | Art | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +--------+----+---------------------------+---------+---------+--------+ This account being punctually kept, the reader can furnish the employer or overseer with an exact account of the state of each work without delay or inconvenience. After the compositors have corrected the errors in the form, a clean proof is pulled, which, with the first proof, is handed to the reader, who then collates the corrected sheet with the one before read, in order to ascertain whether the corrections have been properly made, and whether new errors have not been caused by negligence in the process; and, if the work be a reprint, or if the author is not to examine the proof, he then proceeds to read it very carefully for press. Some proofs are so foul, that it is almost impossible for the compositor to correct all the marks at one time, and it is therefore necessary to have the neglected errors corrected and another sheet pulled before the proof is read finally. It not unfrequently happens that compositors, in the course of correcting, transpose a letter or word, or alter a letter in a word that is not marked, thus not only leaving one error uncorrected, but also making another; sometimes also, in respacing a line, a space is transposed or a hyphen is left in. Consequently it is absolutely necessary, in revising a proof, that the reader should not only look at the word marked, but he ought also to glance his eye over every line in which an alteration has been made.