<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Submitted for comment, though I think the approach is basically valid.</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">William P.C. Barton's <i>Vegetable materia medica</i> has been recorded as two 2-volume editions, 1817-1818 (or -[1819]) and 1825 second edition. The bibliographical reality is more complex, and could not have been sorted out without access to multiple digital copies.</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">There seemed to be no alternative to a thorough revision of two selected master records (from among the many alternatives), even though the correspondence between actual manifestations and details of OCLC holdings is far from consistent--but it was already inconsistent, as discovered by recourse to IRs, which were of considerable utility in this case.</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 record for the second edition (1825) includes a 500 $5 note of the kind that we recently discussed, which seems appropriate for locally developed general information (though there may be something in the literature "out there" that never found its way into library records).</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/record=b7116520">http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b7116520</a> (= OCLC #9803177)</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/record=b1650154">http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b1650154</a> (= OCLC #2167105)<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif">I wish there were some efficient way of alerting key holding libraries to such matters.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><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>
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