<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">[cc'd to DCRM-L as a nice example of copy-specific evidence that contributes to information about the manifestation</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">as a whole.]</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">Hi Eric,</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">Having googled to get a face, I do indeed remember you, though I can't remember which ADB year you were in--but no matter, I remain fair game ever after, till I'm discarded in the Ultimate Game.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">What you've got is a misbound book. The last sheet as printed consisted of one half containing 2Q^4, the other half being 2<span style="font-size:12.8px">†^2 and a blank bifolium (a gift to the binder: waste paper is valuable, unless you're a binder too lazy or unobservant to harvest it) . This is useful evidence, and you should cite it in a general note that describes your copy, e.g. "Gatherings 2</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">†^2 and 2Q^4 machined together as parts of a single a sheet containing a further blank bifolium: Ohio State University copy misbound with the undivided sheet at the end." (<i>No</i> $5 at the end of the note--it's general.)</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">A correct ideal copy description (what you owe the catalogue) will simply have the formula </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">†^4 2</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">†^2 A-2P^8 2Q^4 -- a correctly bound copy does not require the blank leaves. If you were writing, as I routinely do, a Rare Book School style collational note, you could append the information to it, to make a complete structural information note.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif">This is a nice illustration of the distinction between the issue formula, giving the structure of a correctly assembled copy, and the printing formula, representing the book as it stood in sheets before binding.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif">Anomalous copies like yours are a special treat. </font></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">I would gladly trade, for your nice book, the sammelband of early c20 printings of Arabic occult texts that I'm working on right now. </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">No conundra in that case, just ignorance trying to cover its tracks. </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Responding to your inquiry made for a welcome break. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif">A Happy New Year, and many happy returns of it, to you.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif">Richard</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></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 Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Johnson, Eric <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnson.4156@osu.edu" target="_blank">johnson.4156@osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Richard,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope you remember me, but after so many students in your RBS intro to and advanced Des Bib courses I won’t at all be surprised if you don’t! I’m Eric Johnson, a tall, red-headed, glasses-wearing rare books guy (currently Curator of RBMS
at Ohio State). I’ve been putting your teaching to good use in a variety of capacities, and in most cases I’ve been able to figure out what I need to do with pesky problems based on my notes from class, and frequent recourse to Bowers, et al., for particularly
thorny issues. I’ve just come up against one, however, that I’m hoping you might be able to help me with. I know what’s going on with the volume and its sheets, I’m just uncertain how to represent it in a collational formula. Here’s the case:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The book is volume 1 of a 2-volume <i>Don Quixote</i> printed in Spain in 1697. For the most part, the collation is pretty straightforward, offering us this:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">†8(superscript) A-2P8(superscript)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After this basic formulation we should have 2Q4(superscript). However, we have two bifolia added to this gathering in an inopportune manner—a blank and unsigned bifolium and a single bifolium signed 2†1 and 2†2. The whole batch of 2Q, blank,
and 2† bifolia is sequenced in the following way:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2Q1<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chi1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I wanted to make this final gathering intelligible in a collation, is there a convenient way to do so? Incidentally, the 2† signature should’ve been bound after the first † gathering (catchwords between †, 2† and A all match).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know you’re busy with your own conundra, so please don’t break your back trying to get me an answer. But any help you can provide will be most appreciated.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your time, and happy new year!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eric<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Eric J. Johnson, Ph.D.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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