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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Jain, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for pointing me to G5. Somehow I missed reading that last week. I think it answers my question since it mentions that “W and w must have been scanty in cases of roman type,” so compositors frequently used
VV or vv. I believe in this case it makes sense to transcribe as vv unless the letter is clearly a w. See OCLC #</span>
<span style="color:#1F497D">828116011 if you’d like to see what I did. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks again, Ted Gemberling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Fletcher, Jain<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 22, 2013 12:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List (dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Typography question: vv vs. w<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi, Ted,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> I’m not quite sure what you are asking here, but you might want to check DCRM Books, Appendix G (specifically G4 and G5) to see if they address the issue you are raising...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> --Jain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB","serif";color:#403152">Jain Fletcher<br>
Principal Cataloger & Head, Cataloging Section<br>
Collection Management Division <br>
Library Special Collections<br>
Young Research Library - UCLA Box 951575<br>
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB","serif";color:#403152">v: (310) 794-4096</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ted P Gemberling<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 22, 2013 9:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List (<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Typography question: vv vs. w<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I initially tried sending this message to “dcrml-bounces” and it didn’t seem to go through. Sorry if I am posting to the wrong address.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am cataloging a book by Robert Boyle published in 1669. It was printed by Henry Hall in Oxford. I’ve had some difficulty discerning the typography of v and w in the work. This printer had a capital W in roman type, though in italic he
put two capital v’s together. The book is mostly in Roman. My first impression was that he had a lower-case w that just looked like two v’s put together. But I’m finding other instances where there is a small distance between two v’s for a lower-case w. So
do you think I should interpret all lower-case w’s that I transcribe as two v’s: vv? Is that a common thing in books of that age, some variability in how w’s were created?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Actually, I notice that even in Roman capitals on the title page, it is sometimes VV rather than W. The W seems to be used in “medium-size” type. If type is small or very large it’s vv or VV.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The second volume of the work was printed by Miles Flesher, and he seemed to use w’s in all positions, upper- or lower-case. These two volumes will have separate bibliographic records.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ted P. Gemberling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Historical Collections Cataloger<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: (205)934-2461<o:p></o:p></p>
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