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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">At my desk, I have what at first appears to be a copy of the 1616 edition of Speed’s Theatrum imperii Magnae Britanniae (London … 1616 … Iohn Sudbury …). See ESTC S107575:
<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/S107575">http://estc.bl.uk/S107575</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On a blank leaf preceding the title page, this copy has a series of five printed labels providing a different imprint (Amstelodami … 1621 … Hondij …), presumably intended to cover the imprint on the original
title page. See pic attached. Skelton (<a href="https://rbms.info/scf/?scf_entries=skelton-r-a-county-atlases-of-the-british-isles-1579-1850">https://rbms.info/scf/?scf_entries=skelton-r-a-county-atlases-of-the-british-isles-1579-1850</a>) notes the existence
of the 1621 imprint but I haven’t found a copy in OCLC or elsewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">My instinct is to treat this mostly as if the labels covered the title page, transcribing (in field 264) the imprint as found on the labels and making a note to record information about the original imprint.
In fact, I wonder if at one time the labels did cover the imprint and were then displaced by a later owner (very neatly). Is it at all possible that the labels would have been issued in the manner they currently exist, on the extra page? I’ve never seen this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The alternative, I suppose, is to catalog this as a copy of the 1616 edition, noting the labels as a copy-specific detail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What would others do?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Francis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:YaleNew">Francis Lapka</span><span style="font-family:YaleNew"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:YaleNew">Senior Catalog Librarian</span><span style="font-family:YaleNew"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:YaleNew">Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts</span><span style="font-family:YaleNew"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:YaleNew">Yale Center for British Art</span><span style="font-family:YaleNew"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:YaleNew">203-432-9672 · <a href="http://britishart.yale.edu/">
<span style="color:#0563C1">britishart.yale.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:YaleNew"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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