<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">This happens quite a bit with manuscript notebooks: one bibliographic entity, with every facing-page opening having text upside-down on one side.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>The Folger's curator of manuscripts is keen for us to use "Tête-bêche" for this, but we set aside proposing it because RBMS Vocabularies was (at the time) still undergoing format integration. </div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, we've just been using explanatory notes, phrasing them so that the term "tête-bêche"
is defined (and keyword searchable). For example:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Mary Smith used this volume from both directions ("tête-bêche"): text is written front to back and, with volume inverted, written from back to front. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If anyone has a clearer way of wording that, please say so!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanke,</div><div><br></div><div>Erin.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">______________________<br></span></a><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Erin Blake, Ph.D. | Senior Cataloger | Folger
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 3:40 PM Matthew C. Haugen <<a href="mailto:mch2167@columbia.edu">mch2167@columbia.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Something similar came up on DCRM-L in 2017, so I am copying the exchange below. I do think what you describe sounds like something accomplished during imposition and layout of sheets during printing, not binding (as for dos-à-dos and <span>tête</span>-<span>bêche).</span><div><br></div><div>"T<span>ête</span>-<span>bêche imposition" might be a</span> possible term for it: <a href="http://gdt.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=8889412" target="_blank">http://gdt.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=8889412</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Possibly something like "<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">upside-down books" or "reversible books" might be inclusive of tete-beche imposition and tete-beche binding?</span></div><div><font color="#202122" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font><div>Matthew</div><div><br><div>--</div><div><div dir="ltr">I agree with Deborah that what you describe sounds more like a matter of printing than binding. As I understand it, <span>tête</span>-<span>bêche</span> <i>binding</i> involves binding separate, normally oriented texts together head-to-tail. The first text would read normally on both rectos and versos, and the volume is flipped vertically to read the other text. Dos-à-dos (Binding) involves binding the separate texts back to back with spines on the opposite sides of the volume, which needs to be flipped horizontally. The two texts may be related but they don't share pages.<br><div><br></div><div>I find the term <span>tête</span>-<span>bêche</span> also used in philately to describe the <i>printing</i> of adjacent unseparated postage stamps oriented head-to-tail, whether intentionally or not. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte-b%C3%AAche" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte-b%C3%AAche</a><br><br>The closest thing I could find in the RBMS vocabularies was "Inverted blocks (Printing)" but this appears to refer to a type of page make-up error, not an intentional printing phenomenon.<br><br></div><div>I find reference to head-to-tail printing, referring to pages printed oriented as for a legal document bound along the top edge, to be read in a single direct sequence by flipping pages upward. This is also different from the opposing interleaved sequences described by Amber, but in both cases it involves printing rectos and versos in opposite orientations.<br></div><div><br>As <span>tete</span>-<span>beche</span> is not found in the RBMS thesaurus at all, maybe this warrants two CV proposals for new terms along the lines of <span>Tête</span>-<span>bêche</span> (Binding) and <span>Tête</span>-<span>bêche</span> (Printing)?<br><br></div><div></div><div>Matt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div style="margin:5px 0px"><div id="gmail-m_-3166570069305450204gmail-q_1632" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:11px;border-radius:5.5px"><div style="background:url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png") 50% 50%/20px no-repeat;height:11px;opacity:0.7;width:24px"></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJLeslie@folger.edu" target="_blank">DJLeslie@folger.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">You know, I don't think it is. Both dos-à-dos and <span>tête</span>-<span>bêche</span> are binding structures that contain two books together in opposite directions. But what it sounds like Billey is describing is a complete interleaving of the two books, and therefore a printing condition. Yes? A single opening will show an upside-down page on the verso and a right-side-up page on the recto.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(49,132,155)">Deborah J. Leslie, MA, MLS | Senior Cataloger, Folger Shakespeare Library | <a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu" target="_blank">djleslie@folger.edu</a> | 201 East Capitol Street, S.E. | Washington, DC 20003 | <a href="tel:(202)%20675-0369" value="+12026750369" target="_blank">202.675-0369</a> | <a href="http://orcid.org/" target="_blank">orcid.org</a> 0000-0001-5848-5467<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Amber Billey<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 01 June, 2017 18:52<br><b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] term for type of printing<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">It is a <span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span>Tête</span>-<span>bêche</span>! Thank you! </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:44 PM Robert Maxwell <<a href="mailto:robert_maxwell@byu.edu" target="_blank">robert_maxwell@byu.edu</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">This sounds like a Dos-à-dos binding or <span>Tête</span>-<span>bêche</span>:</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos-%C3%A0-dos_binding" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos-%C3%A0-dos_binding</a></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://rbms.info/vocabularies/binding/tr428.htm" target="_blank">http://rbms.info/vocabularies/binding/tr428.htm</a></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Robert L. Maxwell<br>Ancient Languages and Special Collections Librarian<br>6728 Harold B. Lee Library<br>Brigham Young University<br>Provo, UT 84602<br><a href="tel:(801)%20422-5568" value="+18014225568" target="_blank">(801)422-5568</a></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Amber Billey<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 1, 2017 2:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] term for type of printing</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Hello,<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Does anyone know what you call a book that has the printing of one story running through the recto pages, but then when you flip it over and upside-down another story is printed on the verso pages?<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Amber Billey<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div></div><font color="#888888">--<br><div><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap">-- <br>Matthew C. Haugen<br>Rare Book Cataloger<br>102 Butler Library<br>Columbia University Libraries<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:matthew.haugen@columbia.edu" target="_blank">matthew.haugen@columbia.edu</a><br>Phone: 212-851-2451</pre></div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 3:15 PM Harriett Smith <<a href="mailto:harriett@uoregon.edu" target="_blank">harriett@uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I have a book where the pages are printed as normal on the rectos. On p. 175 you turn the book so that the front cover is now the back cover, and there is page 176. The last page of the work is printed on the verso of the title page. </div>
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<div>When I looked at the descriptions of dos-à-dos or tête-bêche they seem to be describing two different titles bound back-to-back and upside down, not one title. The piece in hand is all one bibliographic work. </div>
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<div>I feel sure there is a term for this and it's driving me crazy! Does it ring a bell with anyone?</div>
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