Sheets, counting out and putting away, 294. filling in and pressing, 296. how to take down from the poles, 296. names of, 149. Shooting-sticks, illustrated, 307. Short letters, 59. numbers of sheets, allowance for, 294. pages, how to back, 133. Side notes, how arranged, 131, 132. Signatures, table of, 216, 217. inventor of, 16. Signaturing, remarks concerning, 135. Signs, astronomical, 73, 74. Signs, commercial, 71. mathematical, 71, 73. medical, 74, 75. Silk tympan-covers, 254. Silvering solution, how to make, 316. Sitting at work improper, 127. Sixteens, scheme for imposing half-sheet of, 174. sheet of, 175. Sixty-fours, scheme for imposing quarter-sheet of, 195. scheme for imposing quarter-sheet of, with two signatures, 194. quarter sheet of, mixed, 195. half-sheet of, 196. Slotted brass corners, illustrated, 44. Slovenly copy, censurable, 223. Slurring, how to prevent, 263, 278. Small capital letters, 58, 60, 61. Pica, specimen of, 54. Smith, George Frederick, founder in Philadelphia, 20. Matthew, press-maker, 239. Peter, inventor of a hand-press, 237. Sorts, upper and lower case, 59. Sounds of German letters, 94. Greek letters, 98. Hebrew letters, 104. Sower—see Saur. Samuel & Co., early American type-founders, 20. Space-rules, metal, 81. Spaces, described, 75. various sizes of, should be kept separate, 128. Spacing, remarks on, 130, 131. _Speculum Humanæ Salvationis_, the first printed book, 11. Spelling, rules for, 318-332. _Spiegal enser Behoudenisse_, one of the first printed books, 10. Spring bearers, 259. Springing, to prevent wood-cuts from, 280. Square cross, where used, 66. Standard for height of type, 57, 58. metal furniture, 77. Standing press, how to fill, 296, 297. improved, illustrated, 297. Stanhope, Earl, press invented by, 236. Star chamber, regulations of, concerning English founders, 18. St. Augustin, French and Dutch name for English type, 53. Stereotype plates, English imperfections of, 18. how to underlay, 272. block, illustrated, 44. Stereotyping, invention of, 24. mode of, 24-26, 46. mud process, 26. Stop cylinder press, illustrated, 238. well adapted for fine printing, 239. Stower, extract from, 205, 206. Superiors, 67. Super-royal paper, size of, 298. Syllables, abbreviated, 15. how to divide, 64, 65. Symbols, absurd, 74. Table of paper required for a book, 299. proof-marks, 212. signatures, 216, 217. Takes of copy should be small, 221. Taking copy in companionships, 228, 229. Taking down sheets when dry, 296. Tapes, how to set, 274. Technical terms explained, 338-343. names should be legibly written, 211. Tertia, German name of Great Primer, 53. Theinhardt, Ferdinand, Prussian type-founder, 84.