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Rh is that small prints, that is, the 14×18 size, are usually stored standing up, while the larger sizes are stored lying flat. In the expensively appointed cabinets like Berlin, all the prints are stored in boxes built of thin wood and covered with very heavy English buckram. They are arranged somewhat after the manner of the usual transfer boxes, and are bound in leather at the back, where the artist's name and the catalogue number of the box are indicated. They are lined with a pure white paper which is chosen so as to afford the greatest possible protection to the print. As has been said above, the boxes usually contain the work of one artist only, and if the collection is not rich enough to thus fill any box, there are little wooden frames which can be placed in the box to hold the mounts in place. These boxes are stored on shelves like books, the largest ones lying flat on racks provided with rollers, as in a library stack. In Dresden and some other cabinets where the boxes are bound in choice leather, the shelves on which they are stored are covered with corduroy to prevent the rubbing of the wood. Corduroy is purposely chosen because the boxes slip in and out so much more easily in the little grooves formed by the wale of the material.

In collections where so much money is not available for installation, the smaller prints are often