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Hi All, <br>
I'm hoping I can get in one last collation question before everyone
disappears for ALA!<br>
<br>
I am cataloging a book with consistent gatherings in 8vo, until I
reach the last gathering.<br>
It is also appears to be in 8vo, but the gathering should have been
split between two separate copies. <br>
As you can see in the scanned version (Google books link below), the
last signature R (page 257), ends after 4 leaves. <br>
However my copy has those last pages duplicated. Not additional
pages with duplicate numbering, but the actual pages duplicated.<br>
Beginning with the half-title page I have A-S⁸ then the R signature,
with leaves R1 through R4 repeated as R5 through R8.<br>
How to I transcribe that into the signature formula? Or do I? Is it
a "missed" cancellation? A binding error?<br>
Should I construct the signature formula as though I had a "perfect"
copy, with a note about the duplicate pages?<br>
<br>
Sorry, it seems to me the more I try to explain what I have, the
more confusing it becomes.<br>
<br>
<i>Filosofía médica ó Principios fundamentales de la ciencia y el</i>
..., tome 2. Madrid, 1802.<br>
[Translation of <i>Philosophie médicale, ou, Principes
fondamentaux de la science</i> ... Paris, 1796]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=EXjBr9l2-U0C&pg=PA257#v=onepage&q&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=EXjBr9l2-U0C&pg=PA257#v=onepage&q&f=false</a><br>
<br>
Thank you in advance for any insights!<br>
<br>
Barbara<br>
...................All opinions are entirely my
own....................<br>
<br>
Barbara R. Tysinger Phone:
(919)966-0949<br>
Health Sciences Library Fax:
(919)966-1388<br>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<br>
335 S. Columbia Street, CB# 7585<br>
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7585<br>
e-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Barbara_Tysinger@unc.edu">Barbara_Tysinger@unc.edu</a><br>
<br>
......."Non pilus tam tenuis ut secari non possit."-- St.
Minutia......<br>
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