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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">Will,<br>
<br>
I think it represents a computer script unable to cope with italic l. for leaf (possibly from a WordPerfect original?) and substituting the beta, so you are right.<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
<br>
Jane<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 January 2018 21:44:22 GMT+00:00, Will Evans <evans@bostonathenaeum.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Hi All,</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"">Some of our older bib records from retrocon have a beta symbol in the statement of extent (see below), which would appear to represent unnumbered leaves. Could anyone confirm if the beta symbol was used to indicate unnumbered leaves, and identify source of this practice in bibliographical description? I didn’t find any reference to it in Bowers. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="fieldlabelspan">Main Author: </span><span class="subfielddata"><a href="https://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/search?searchArg=Brangwyn%2C%20Frank%2C%201867-1956.&searchCode=NAME&searchType=4">Brangwyn, Frank, 1867-1956.</a> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="fieldlabelspan">Title: </span><span class="subfielddata">A </span><span class="highlight">book</span><span class="subfielddata"> of </span><span class="highlight">bridges</span><span class="subfielddata">, by Frank Brangwyn A. R. A., and Walter Shaw Sparrow.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="fieldlabelspan">Publishing Details: </span><span class="subfielddata">London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company, 1915.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="fieldlabelspan">Description: </span><span class="subfielddata">xiv p., 2 β., 3-415 p. col. front., illus., col. plates 27 cm.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </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> </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"">National Endowment for the Humanities </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Chief Librarian in Charge of Technical Services</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: 617-227-0270 ext. 243</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: 617-227-5266 </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/"><span style="color:blue">www.bostonathenaeum.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div>
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