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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m hoping for your thoughts on how to refer to specific pages in books with complicated pagination and signature statements.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was a student in Deborah Leslie’s Rare Book School cataloging class this past summer, and we’ve been communicating about one title with especially complicated pagination/signatures, the 1735 edition of: Chamberlayne, John. Magnae Britanniae
Notitia. (ESTC T54594)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ESTC has pagination: [18], 461, [1]; 8, 20, [4], 21-244, [4], 245-261, [5]; 80 p.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Signatures are: A⁸(-A1) b² B-2F⁸ 2G⁸(-2G8) chi²; ²[A]⁸ B⁸(B2+chi 1.2) C-P⁸ Q⁸(Q2+chi 1.2) R² T ⁴(-T4); ³A-E⁸.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The ESTC record states: “After p. 20 comes a page numbered 21* and then three pages with asterisks in place of pagination; after p. 244 comes a page numbered *244 and then three pages with similar asterisks.” But the ESTC record does not
indicate that p. [263-264] of the second part are actually asterisked and that p. [265-266] are unnumbered.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The copy in hand lacks p. 9-12 of the second count of the second part. After p. 80 of the third part are bound:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Two of the asterisked pages from the second part (i.e., p. [263-264]; leaf T2)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">P. 1-8 of the second count from the second part (leaves ²[A]3-²[A]6)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Two unnumbered pages (i.e., p. [265-266], or leaf T3)<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you were to write a copy-specific note to describe the pages bound out of order, how would you refer to them? If this book were not a cataloging priority, and so not given the cataloging time to craft a signature statement, would you
consider referring to pages instead of leaves in the local note? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ashley Cataldo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ashley Cataldo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">American Antiquarian Society <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">185 Salisbury Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Worcester, Massachusetts 01609<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:acataldo@mwa.org">acataldo@mwa.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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