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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">I’m second guessing myself in applying this rule. Based on what I’m finding for records coded DCRMB in OCLC, there seems to be two applications of the rule. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">1.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">London printed, 1639, Boston, New England, reprinted : $b by Thomas and John Fleet in Cornhill, and Green and Russell, in Queen-Street, $c 1764. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">2.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">[Boston, Mass.] : $b London printed, 1639. Boston, New England, reprinted by Thomas and John Fleet in Cornhill, and Green and Russell, in Queen-Street, $c 1764. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">As I read the rule, example 1 seems closest to it in spirit. But I must admit I think example 2 is clearer and has greater fidelity to what appears on the title-page. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">So giants of the rare materials cataloging world, should it be 1 or 2? Or have I overlooked some other instruction entirely?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Thanks in advance for your indulgence. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will Evans</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Chief Rare Materials Catalog Librarian</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Library of the Boston Athenaeum</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">10 1/2 Beacon Street</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Boston, MA 02108</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p>
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