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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">I love talking about this stuff. Thanks, David, for providing the opportunity. (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">Shame on you for being an enabler</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">.)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A NAME=""><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial Unicode MS">__________________________________________</FONT></SPAN></A></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial Unicode MS">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.<BR>
Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.folger.edu/bsc/index.html">http://www.folger.edu/bsc/index.html</A><BR>
Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library<BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial Unicode MS">djleslie@folger.edu || 202.675-0369</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> ||</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.folger.edu"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></U><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial Unicode MS">http://www.folger.ed</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial Unicode MS">u</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">From:</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [<A HREF="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</A>]</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">On Behalf Of</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">David Woodruff<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Sent:</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> 07 October 2006 19:52<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">To:</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Subject:</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> RE: [DCRM-L] Glossary</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It's my turn to say "Ah, now I see." The glossary definition of plate it</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">just the way you want it. Nevertheless I am concerned about relying on</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">whether a disjunct woodcut illustration is folded or not to determine</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">whether it is a plate. Folding is post-production; is it</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">bibliographically relevant?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">[</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">DJ</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">L</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">]</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">I would say yes.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">Leaves are folded</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">by the binder</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">only if they are not the same size as the other leaves.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">If a le</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">tter</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">press leaf</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">is folded, in</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">nearly all cases it</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">s because it was</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">printed in a different format and counts as a plate.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">It is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">concei</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">vable</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">, as you</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">ve described below,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">a</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">woodcut that started</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">out simply as a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">leaf of text</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> ends up</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">sl</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">i</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">ghtly</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">larger</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">than the rest of the textblock</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">; I can imagine a scenario in wh</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">ich</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> a book</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">, after being rebound several times,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">has lost enough of its margins that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">to cut the woodcut leaf to the same size as the rest of the text block would involve cutting into the image, and</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">so it would be folded to prevent that</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">loss.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">On the other hand, I</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> don</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">t recall ever seeing it, or if I have,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">it was obvious to me what was going on</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">My experience tells me</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">it was a</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">universal practice</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">, or near enough as to make no difference,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> to trim the woodcut leaves along with the rest of the letterpress leaves.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Some plates are so big they have to be</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">folded, but others are close to the size of a text leaf, and can be</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">folded, or trimmed more closely, at the whim of the binder. Thus the</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">number of folded plates can differ from copy to copy. They can also</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">differ within a single copy over the course of its existence, if the</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">edges are trimmed in rebinding, requiring some plates to be folded that</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">in the original binding were flat. Or an owner (or a subversive</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cataloger for that matter) could convert a disjunct illustrative woodcut</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">text leaf to a plate simply by folding over the fore edge. In all these</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cases the books could be bibligraphically identical but would receive</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">different descriptions.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><I><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">[</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">DJ</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">L</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">]</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">I just don</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">t see it.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">It</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">s possible, but why? Why would anyone fold a leaf that didn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">t need folding? That would</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">degrade its condition and therefore reduce</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">both</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">its</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">utility and its</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">value.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">And although it probably happened,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">I am also not aware of</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">a printer printing a woodcut leaf entirely separately from the rest of the textblock when it was only slightly larger than the</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">other leaves.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">It</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">s economically unfeasible; if I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">d seen exemplars of this practice, I would think differently, but I haven</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS Western">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">t.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My inclination would be to treat books that are engraved throughout</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">under 5B1.4, as all text, but not to try to assimilate letterpress books</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to what is after all an exception. The definition of plate could then be</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a version of the DCRB definition, something like "any leaf, not part of</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a text gathering, that bears a title page printed in a different medium</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">from the text, an illustration, or a table."</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">But a letterpress table, by this definition, doesn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">t qualify as a plate because it was printed in the same medium</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">(on a letterpress)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">as the text.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">We</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">need to rely on catalogers</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> common sense and general knowledge t</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">o</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">some extent</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">, and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> to figure ou</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> what</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">s going on</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> with what they</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">re cataloging</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">If it can</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">t be</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">figured out definit</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">iv</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">ely,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">then the cataloger makes</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">her</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">best guess</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">and indicates her uncertainty in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">conventional</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> forms.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">But if in copy cataloging, a cataloger sees that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">master</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">copy</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">there is no plate,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">where</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">her copy has a woodcut leaf folded slightly at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">foredge</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> and head and tail,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">but is missing a leaf that the other copy has (and in the same</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">spot)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"> o</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">nly a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">very</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">dull</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">or</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">impossibly</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">confused</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">cataloger</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">would conclude that</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">her copy has a unique plate.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">I don</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">t see this as</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">enough of</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">a prob</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">lem to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">backpedal on</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">the definition</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">we finally came</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">up with.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">I per</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">sonally</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">am very happy with our definition of plate.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">Other opinions, as always, welcome.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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