Compton was commissioned at a time when good paper was scarce. So the cut of paper was the most economical. This resulted in many of the copies, not all, have grain which runs across the page, not from top to bottom. In an ideal world all books would have paper where the grain runs from top of the page to the bottom of the page  and it would be called long grain. This means in the reading of the book, the page is being turned along the most flexible direction, that is top to bottom.

These pics show some of that inn action and I hope will help to describe the problem and enable  the best copies to be selected.

• compton leather showing stiff paper folded across grain
• compton leather shows no drape
• compton page 1
• compton page 2 flat
• compton page 2 folded lonways but cross grain
• compton page 2 foled long grain across page
• compton page 2 showing cross grain folded long page
• compton page 2 showing drape long grain
• compton page cross grain
• compton page folded long grain
• compton red box
• comptonbluebox
• copy paper 1
• cross grain
• folded cross
• folded long
• grain long