<font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">I think the fact that pi1 is a blank leaf makes it all the more important to assert the structure in the formula. <i>Making up some details</i>, I might describe it as:</font></font><div>
<font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">pi1[=B2] A^8 [B]^2(-B2) [$4 signed]; 10 leaves, pp. [2 unnumbered (blank)] [1-3] 4-17 [18 (blank)]. Note: Leaves pi1 and pi2 observed conjugate in XXX copy.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">With less descriptive vegetation, one would simply note the conjugacy of the two outer leaves. NOte that the "cancellation" of B2 means only that it is not in its normal position--it has been "removed" (analogous to the British use of "remove" to mean moving house). Alternatively, in a case like this, one could write pi^2(pi1 + A^8). It's natural enough to let those outer leaves serve as a self-wrapper, and to infer that the pamphlet was designed to be issued that way, though the printer was too lazy to set up a half title.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">What's uncommon about this is that the initial leaf is entirely blank. If this were a larger book, and the leaves had to be separated to be bound first and last, one could write e.g. pi1[=N2] A-M^8 [N]^2(-N2) -- but <i>only</i> if pi1 were not blank. In most cases N2, if blank, it would simply follow N1, unless the binder snatched it. Even if N2 were placed before A1 to serve as a flyleaf, that would be a binder's trick, not an ideal-copy feature.</font></div>
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Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:45 PM<br>Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Collation conundrum<br>To: DCRM Revision Group List <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br><br><br>I've also seen, but do not know if it's correct:<br>
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500 Signatures: pi1 A^8 chi1; leaf chi1 = pi2.<br>
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I've dealt with this issue before but don't remember how it was resolved. Because it's a bifolium, it seems to make a little more sense to render it:<br>
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500 Signatures: pi^2 A^8; pi2 wraps around to enclose gathering A.<br>
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There must be a better way to word the note.<br>
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Hoping the collective wisdom can suggest the best way to formulate an early 18th-century continental pamphlet of 10 leaves. It's a 4to in 8s with an extra fold wrapped around the regular 8 leaf gathering thus:<br>
[1 blank leaf preceding t.p.], normal 8-leaf gathering A, [single leaf comprising p. 17 and blank [18]]<br>
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The simplest formula would seem to be:<br>
[pi]1 A^8 [chi]1<br>
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with a note explaining that pi and chi are conjugate. This should be simple, a common occurrence for pamphlets, but I find no direction in Bowers and wonder if something more complicated is in order? Because there is another edition of this title, virtually identical save for signings, it seems necessary to record collation in order to disambiguate the 2 (or more) extant versions.<br>
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Thanks for any suggestions.<br>
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