72 -alit OE BEADING AND wEITINtI. THAT I AM, is the name of God. Whole words also are written in capitals, in the titles of books, for ornament sake. S. When I or O are single words, they must always be writ In capitals, as I read, O brave 9. It has also been the growing custom of this age in print- ing of every thing, but especially poetry or verse, to begin every name of a thing, which is called a noun substantive, with a great letter; though Icannot appprove it so universally as itis practised. CHAP. MUMObservations concerningthe Size, Pages, Titles, &rc. in printedBooks. 1. BOOKS are said to be printed in folio, in quarto, in octavo, or in twelves, or sometimes in iwentrl fours. Books in folio, are those wherein a whole sheet makes but two leaves ; in quarto, a sheet makes four leaves ; in octavo, eight leaves; and in duodecimo, or twelves, twelve leaves, &e, 2. A page in a book, is all that is written, or printed onone side of a leaf. 3, A line signifies all the words that stand in onerank, from the, left-hand of the page to the right. 4, But when the page is divided into several parts from the top to the bottom, one of those parts is called a column ; as in bibles, testaments, news-papers, dictionaries, all tables of cata. logues of words. 5. The spaces on the side, or bottom of thepage, are called the margin, whether they be empty, or have notes in them, which are called marginal notes. B. The first page of every book, which gives an account what that book treats of, is called the titlepage; and the first part of it is usually written or printed in capitals. 7. The word or sentence that stands over the head of every page is called the running title. 8. The word that is written at the bottom of the page, at the right-hand, is called the catch-word, and is repeated again at the beginning of the next page, to show that the pages are printed in true order, and follow one another aright. 9. The great or small letters and figures that stand under many of the pages, are marks of the printer, chiefly for the use of the book-binder to number the sheets ; as, A, B, Ç, note the 1st, 2d, and 3d sheet, Ste, 10. Where a line begins shorter than the rest, with a great letter, it is called a newparagraph. 11. As chapters are parts of a book, so sections are some- times made pasts of At chapter, and paragraphs are parts of o section.
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