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Credit: The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: In copyright
Credit: The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![lecture [pp. 14ff], trace out in some detail Aristotle's Masterpiece which on examination has shown itself to be an extraordinary compilation of sixteenth and seventeenth century knowledge. To the scandal of our modern educational methods, it still has a large sale in England though I am wholly at a loss as to the mentality of those who buy it. For bibliographical purposes the normal course of a successful book is as follows: The manuscript written by the author and sent to the printer. This manu¬ script until recently was given out to several compos¬ itors who set it up with moveable types and issued it in sheets or slips to the printer’s reader who corrected the clerical errors. When these mistakes had been corrected by the printer a clean proof was sent to the author for any alterations he might wish to make. The author having made his alterations or additions returned the proof to the printer and in due course was supplied with a “revise.” The revise being ap¬ proved by the author was printed off in sheets of four, twelve, sixteen or thirty-two pages according to the size in which the book was to appear. The sheets were then collected together, no special care being taken to collect them in the order in which they had been printed. The whole of the sheets, each gathered into a complete set, were supplied to the publisher who again issued them in sheets or had them bound and sold them as a book. As the individual sheets had been set up by different compositors and might have](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29824734_0143.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
