<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">This is the standard ca. 1st half of c19 way of signing the offcut in formats that have them (12mo and 18mo for the most part). It doesn't mean "2nd leaf" but "2nd printed signature in this gathering".</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">The signing statement can most easily read: $1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$2'.</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">Numerical signatures were usually asterisked: $1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$*'.</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">In 12s you may find: $1,2,5 signed; signing $5 as '$3'.</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">A selection of <i>exempla</i> here:</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://josiah.brown.edu/search~S7/X?SEARCH=%28%22signing%203%20as%202%22%29&SORT=D">http://josiah.brown.edu/search~S7/X?SEARCH=%28%22signing%203%20as%202%22%29&SORT=D</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://josiah.brown.edu/search~S7/X?SEARCH=%28%22signing%205%20as%203%22%29&SORT=D">http://josiah.brown.edu/search~S7/X?SEARCH=%28%22signing%205%20as%203%22%29&SORT=D</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><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></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Will Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evans@bostonathenaeum.org" target="_blank">evans@bostonathenaeum.org</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-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Two 12mos (or what I think are 12mos) have crossed my desk in the past 24 hours each with gatherings of 6 leaves, one a 1787 New Brunswick, New Jersey imprint, the other an 1822 Dublin, Ireland imprint, and both have gatherings where the third leaf is consistently missigned as the second leaf (e.g. A3 is signed A2). Is this just a fluke, or am I missing some known irregular printing practice?  </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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Tel:  <a href="tel:617-227-0270%20ext.%20224" value="+16172270270" target="_blank">617-227-0270 ext. 224</a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Fax: <a href="tel:617-227-5266" value="+16172275266" target="_blank">617-227-5266</a> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.bostonathenaeum.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div>
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