Excerpt from Gleanings From a Printer's FileA printing office is required by law to keep for a specified time a copy of everything 'it prints. This is generally done by stabbing a copy of the printed job (often with the ms. Copy) on a wire file 4 to 5 feet in length with a wooden stop at the bottom, and a bent-over top with a sharp point for piercing the paper, exactly the pattern of the wire file Often used for accounts and other papers, only much larger. The usual plan is to use a file for each year, starting with the new year.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.