"...since the Captain had missed his dinner, did he choose to take a cold collation in the gunroom?"--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 167
In rare/antique books, to collate is to checking for the presence of every leaf and page that was in the volume when originally issued. If all are present, a book is said to have been collated as complete.
"...since the Captain had missed his dinner, did he choose to take a cold collation in the gunroom?"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 167
In rare/antique books, to collate is to checking for the presence of every leaf and page that was in the volume when originally issued. If all are present, a book is said to have been collated as complete.