Issue 37
The Bench, Winter 1998
The Bench, Issue 37, Winter 1998. Edited by R. M. Teague.
bench_1998_winter.pdf — 24 pages. Transcript below.
From the Bench
Page 4 · reading down the bench, by R. Teague
Good practice in this room has always begun with the count.Rolls arrive numbered, and we number them again.Every bench keeps its own tally sheet, and every tally is initialled.Younger hands sometimes ask why we duplicate the labour.Labour is the cheapest part of trust.I have never yet met a machine that can be ashamed of itself.Nothing leaves this bench uncounted while I am on it.Errors are forgivable; silence about them is not.
Set one sentence to a line, at the author’s request.
Page 17
THE BINDERY, PAGE 17Rafferty reports that the quarter leather for the Corporation volumes has arrived,and the binder has asked us to leave a wider margin on the gutter edge, which wewill do, because he is right and we were wrong about it in 1994 as well.Work in the bindery this quarter: six phase boxes, two clamshells, one portfolio,and the endless business of the diocesan sewing, which continues.
House abbreviations
Printed in every issue, for the benefit of anyone reading a bench note.
| Short | Long |
|---|---|
| hv | have |
| cntd | counted |
| twce | twice |
| b | by |
| hnd | hand |
| btch | batch |
| svntn | seventeen |
| shws | shows |
| shrtfll | shortfall |
| imgs | images |
| sgnd | signed |
| cmplt | complete |
| & | and |
| rcvd | received |
| encl | enclosure |
| dmg | damage |
| rpr | repair |
| vrfd | verified |
| mnscrpt | manuscript |
| Q | (filler: a short field is padded with Q) |
Counts are written as words, never as numerals. A figure standing in a count is expanded on transcription: 406 is written four hundred and six.
Colophon
Page 24
The Bench is set in Times and printed on 90gsm cartridge. Thanks this issue to Desmond, to Micky for the tape, and to everyone who returned a tally sheet on time.
TCTGE HOSEL EUOTE TNNCV RTTAE USARN EIRDQ
Set and printed by Sorrel & Daughters, Nettlefold. Seven formes, as always.