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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">The second example in DCRM(B) 5D1.3 gives the format as (4to and 8vo), for “a publication consisting of a mixture of quarto and octavo sheets.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">I am wondering if the order of formats is always given from smallest to largest, or if the predominant format should come first.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">The book in question is G.J.G.E., ou, Chevalier Kados. A Paris : Chez le Frere vérité, au grand-globe Franc</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̧̧</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">ois,
MDCCLXXXI [1781], and is signed A¹</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁰</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> B-C¹² D</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁸</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">;
A-C are 12mo and D is 8vo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Honor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Honor Moody<br>
Cataloger<br>
Schlesinger Library<br>
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study<br>
3 James Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02138<br>
Tel.: (617) 495-4223<br>
Email: hmoody@radcliffe.harvard.edu</span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">
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