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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Allison,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I hope that you receive an answer to this important question from someone more expert in these matters than myself, but following the dictum that “fools rush
in where angels fear to tread,” here I go.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">But before I do, I think my suggestion would be not to express this via a collational formula at all and instead have a pagination statement that distinguishes—as
the Huntington Library has done for its copy (see OCLC 228764481)—between pages (meaning printed pages) and pages of plates (meaning engravings).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">As a general principle, the collational formula only records the material that passed through the printing press (Bowers pp. 198-201). Of course even as he was
writing <i>Principles of Bibliographic Description</i> Bowers recognized that there was real difference of opinion on this point. Nevertheless, he—and those who follow his principles—took the very conservative position that the formula should exclude anything
that did not pass through the printing press since the formula is intended to be an “analysis of the
<i>printing</i> of the book” (p. 198; his emphasis). <br>
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But then what do you do in the case of something like the 1770 edition of Billings’
<i>New England Psalm Singer</i>? If one strictly applied Bowers’ principles, the collational formula would exclude something like 80-90% of the book since none of the leaves following page 22 (containing the “New-England Hymn, by the Rev. Dr. Byles”) appear
to have gone through the press. <br>
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On the other hand, looking at the book itself—I took a look at our copies and was quickly as frustrated as I am sure you were by what I saw--you can understand why one might want to forgo a collational formula in favor of some other kind of description of the
book: the first printed signature one encounters is B, which immediately follows an unsigned gathering that is A4. But B1 is the only signed letterpress gathering in the entire book. And the gatherings of engraved material frustratingly repeat signatures used
or implied in the letterpress material (e.g. the page containing the tunes “Scituate” and “Liberty” are *<b>also</b>* signed B!) Clearly these pages were prepared by someone who had nothing to do with the setting of the letterpress material. That is supported
by the fact the 108 pages of music following page 22 begin the pagination afresh with page 1.
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If the goal of the collational formula is an analysis of what went through the letterpress, then I think Bowers is right and we have to exclude all of this and content ourselves with some other way of describing the book. The path taken by the Huntington and
others (again see OCLC 228764481) seems the safest and sanity-preserving approach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, PhD, MLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> exlibris-l-request@list.indiana.edu <exlibris-l-request@list.indiana.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rich, Allison<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 27, 2023 12:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> exlibris-l@list.indiana.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT] :["EXLIBRIS-L"] Help with a signature statement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Hi All:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">I am cataloguing: The New-England psalm-singer: or, American chorister / by William Billings, Boston: Edes and Gill, 1770.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">The prelims, pages 10, [1], 8, [1], 9-22, are a mix of letterpress and engraved leaves by Paul Revere.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Pages 1-10, 1st count, are letterpress and are signed A1-4 with B1 being pasted on to A4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Pages [1], 1-8, and [1] are fully engraved and unsigned; page [1], 2nd count, is a blank recto, and pages 8, and [1], 2nd and 3rd counts, pasted on to page 7, with page [1], 3rd count, a blank
verso. This is gathering [C]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Pages 9-22 are letterpress and unsigned; there are 7 leaves with the [D]3 pasted on to [D]2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">How do I express this, I am mostly having trouble with gatherings [C] and [D].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">I have not seen anything like this before and I am stumped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">I also sent this message to DCRM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Thank you all for your kind help,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Allison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Outside of a dog, <br>
a book is probably man's best friend,<br>
and inside of a dog, <br>
it's too dark to read. <br>
- Groucho Marx"<br>
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Allison Rich<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">John Carter Brown Library<br>
Providence, Rhode Island<br>
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