Gathering.
When a volume is wholly printed off, the sheets after drying and pressing are gathered in single copies of complete books; in half-sheet work there would be two copies on.
When a volume is wholly printed off, the sheets after drying and pressing are gathered in single copies of complete books; in half-sheet work there would be two copies on.
Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.