On all copies sold in the form of unbound printed sheets a royalty to be negotiated and based on the Publisher's net receipts.
Totaling 160 pages, most of the uncut and unbound sheets were destroyed in the ensuing fire.
The book is an omnibus of Stapledon's Worlds of Wonder and Leinster's Murder Madness, created by combining unbound sheets from the publisher's previous editions of the two volumes.
It consists of a single 18th-century book designed in the Tibetan-style, as unbound stackable sheets, here displayed side by side.
Under the desk was a low set of shelves piled with unbound sheets, and since they were all in Latin, I deduced they were his most recent translations.
Approximately 150 sets of unbound sheets eventually found their way into the possession of Arkham House in 1959 where they were offered for sale in an unbound state.
(A "codex" is an old book manuscript in the form of unbound sheets.)
For the auction, on May 22 in London, Sotheby's will include in the same lot 110 unbound sheets of individual parts - for vocal soloists, chorus and trombones.
Manutius still has six hundred and fifty copies in unbound sheets.
This notebook contains 25 unbound sheets (including two blank pages), which is estimated to be approximately a third of the original size.