<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">As a general rule, the collational formula concerns only those portions of the text that passed through the printing press. In particular, engravings on separate leaves--not printed on an "integral" leaf, that is, a leaf that forms part of the printed sheets--are to be separately accounted for. In a case like yours, I'd note</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">8vo: [pi]^8 A-P^8 [$2 signed]; 128 leaves, pages [I-II] III-XVI, 1-237 [238-240] + frontispiece portrait and 4 plates ('Lam. 1a'-'Lam. 4a')</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">This may be wrong in detail--the online pdf loads too slowly to be repeatedly scanned for details--but the final gathering <i>is</i> P, not O. The portrait could just as well face the title page as the first page of text--that's probably a copy-specific matter (to oversimplify a little too radically, printed sheets are the fixed stars, plates are planets--wandering stars).</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Time to review chapter five of Bowers' <i>Principles</i>, and see whether you can get some funding (or a scholarship) for Rare Book School course G-10, aka Bibliography Boot Camp.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Barbara Tysinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:btysingr@email.unc.edu" target="_blank">btysingr@email.unc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Good afternoon!<br>
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The latest in my series of signature queries...<br>
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I have a book in octavo, the preliminaries are in a single
gathering, completely unsigned, followed by an engraved frontispiece
singleton (also unsigned), and then the main text block, with the
title page being A1.<br>
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My question, should the frontispiece singleton be recorded in the
signature statement as: " pi⁸ chi1 A-O⁸ " or as " pi⁸ 2pi1 A-O⁸ "?
Or as something else?<br>
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The book in question is:<br>
<blockquote><i>Tratado de las operaciones que deben practicarse en
la dentadura, y método para conservaria en buen estado</i> ...
by Félix Pérez Arroyo. Madrid: Franganillo, 1799.<br>
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Thanks!<div class=""><br>
Barbara<br>
...................All opinions are entirely my
own....................<br>
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