<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">And here I put in a plug for John Carter, <i>ABC for Book Collectors</i> (8th ed.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/75338/john-carter-nicolas-barker/abc-for-book-collectors-8th-ed-u-s">http://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/75338/john-carter-nicolas-barker/abc-for-book-collectors-8th-ed-u-s</a></font><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">which is both informative and a frequently amusing read. e.g. (at random)</span><font face="georgia, serif"><br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">"FACSIMILES AND FAKES. A facsimile ... figures frequently in the nightmares of collectors, causes booksellers more trouble than almost any other factor in their business, and has been known to upset the studious equanimity of librarians. For an exact copy is a menacing thing to those who pursue originals."</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hoping that all your studious equipoise is not too frequently upset, even by overly adhesive fly-leaves - Richard</span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</font><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">BROWN UNIVERSITY :: PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912 :: 401-863-1187</font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><</span><a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace" target="_blank">Richard_Noble@Br</a><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><a href="http://own.edu" target="_blank">own.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">></span></div>
</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Weiss, Amy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akweiss@fsu.edu" target="_blank">akweiss@fsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Fly leaves! I knew there had to be something to call them.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">They were added by the binder. They are notably different from the paper of the text block.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Amy<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<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" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Noble, Richard<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 06, 2014 11:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Extra leaves<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">If you are sure that the stuck-together leaves really are binder's blanks that have no connection with any leaves of the text block, you have the option to note them as part of the binding description,
though they might not be noted at all if there's nothing special about them in quality or quantity.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The proper term for them is "endpapers", consisting of the leaf that's pasted down, the "pastedown", and its freely turning companion, the "free endpaper", sometimes more specifically the "front
free endpaper"--which you may see abreviated as "ffe", since inscriptions often land there--and "back free endpaper", which usually receives less attention. Additional leaves are referred to as "fly-leaves".<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">In the case of your book, what's probably most worth noting is that the fly-leaves (and the free endpapers?) are unusually numerous (binding description) and that they are stuck together (condition
report). "FSU copy with numerous front fly-leaves now stuck together" or something like that.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all">
<u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">BROWN UNIVERSITY :: PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912 :: <a href="tel:401-863-1187" value="+14018631187" target="_blank">401-863-1187</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><</span><a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Richard_Noble@Br</span></a><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://own.edu" target="_blank">own.edu</a>></span><u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Weiss, Amy <<a href="mailto:akweiss@fsu.edu" target="_blank">akweiss@fsu.edu</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi—I am a novice rare book cataloger and I have a situation I don’t know quite how to describe. I have a book Locorum theologicorum which has been bound with a large number of
blank pages at the front of the book. The pages are in terrible condition--- stuck together so that I dare not try to separate them to count them. The rest of the text block is in adequate condition, but I’m not sure what would be a good note for the preliminary
pages. Something like “FSU Special Collections copy: contains blank preliminary leaves not included in signatures or pagination.”?
<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your help in advance,
<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amy Weiss<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Florida State University
<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
</div></div></div>
</div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>