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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">If the letterpress leaves are folded, they are, by definition, plates. So,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">300 62, [2] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates ; ǂc 20 cm (8vo)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">500 The folded plates consist of … <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">*Plate. A leaf that is chiefly or entirely non-letterpress, or a folded leaf of any kind, inserted with letterpress gatherings …
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#2E74B5">Deborah J Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Senior Cataloger | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20003 |
<a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu"><span style="color:#2E74B5;text-decoration:none">djleslie@folger.edu</span></a> |
<a href="http://www.folger.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.folger.edu</span></a> | Opinions her own<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Robert O. Steele<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 1 December, 2021 15:56<br>
<b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Folded tables<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Or rather 300 62, [2] pages, [4] folded pages ; ǂc 20 cm (8vo)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 3:53 PM Robert O. Steele <<a href="mailto:rosteele2021@gmail.com">rosteele2021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know plates are supposed to be omitted from collation formulas, but what about unsigned letterpress gatherings with a format different from the rest of the work?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm cataloging a work consisting of 4 octavo gatherings, with 2 quarto "insertions". I would be tempted to call them "folded plates" except that they are not plates, but rather letterpress tables. Each insertion is a quarto bifolium printed
with the same type and on the same paper as the rest, and each consisting of 4 distinct pages (the tables do not run across the fold). Since they are larger than the octavo gatherings, they are also folded up from the bottom.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The quarto bifolia are inserted in reasonable places in my copy, but I'm not sure where they were *intended* to be inserted, possibly inside the last blank leaf (at the end of the final page: "Suit le tableau ... etc.")<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The simplest:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">62, [2] pages (8vo), [4] pages (4to)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Signatures: [1]⁸ 2-4⁸ (last leaf blank).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With a note explaining the quarto insertions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I'm not sure this is accurate.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm tempted by something more complicated such as:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Signatures: : [1]⁸ 2-3⁸ 4⁸ (4₇+chi-²chi²); last leaf blank. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Advice?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Robert Steele<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">GWU Law<o:p></o:p></p>
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