<font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Erin Blake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:EBlake@folger.edu" target="_blank">EBlake@folger.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">260 $a [Antwerp?] : $b [Publisher not identified], $c [between 1590 and 1600?] $g ([printed late 18th or early 19th century])
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></p></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ah, interesting. Is the $c understood as date of engraving or first publication? In which case the $g, given the frequent importance of date of printing, could be the basis for creating distinct records? Then there's what one might do with 264 fields ... interesting times.<br>
<br>Home. Ready for drink ... cataloging will do that to you. Take note, neophytes.</span><br></div></div><br clear="all"><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</font><div>
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