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I've asked some friends who have some historical knowledge of printing about 
this. They don't have any information at hand as to how large amounts of 
columnar material were typeset at that time, but our feeling was that the 
columns could easily have been set up--as columns--and then locked into the 
chaise for printing the entire page.

Regardless of whether that was commonly done, it could easily have been done, 
and it is entirely possible that some printer's apprentice literally picked 
up the wrong column of type (numbers all look alike, so to speak) and locked 
it up onto the wrong page. It might be worth looking at the "wrong" column, 
and then other pages, to see if that wrong column literally should have been 
on another page. A duplicate, or a transposition, would be possible.

   

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