Topic 6: Glossary

[Robert Maxwell]

Please comment to the list on the following proposed revisions by Sandra:

DCRB "GLOSSARY": PROPOSED REVISIONS

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New terms added:  Figure; Frontispiece.

Should we add the following?-Gathering; Imprint  ???????
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Bibliographic description.  [Stet.]

Broadside, broadsheet.  %Cataloguer's term for single-sheet publication, q.v.%

Chief title.  [Omit definition.] % See Title proper. % [Omit "see also."]

*Edition. All copies resulting from a single  % printing %  job of
typographical composition.

Figure.  [N.B.: new term.]  An illustration printed on a page of text, or
printed on a page which is an integral part of a gathering.

Fingerprint. A group of characters taken from the text of the publication,
which, with the addition of an imprint date and an edition, impression,  %or
other identifying number%,  may serve to identify the publication uniquely.

Folder. [Stet.]

Frontispiece.  [N.B.: new term.] An illustrative leaf, excepting an added
title page, preceding (and usually facing) the title page.  The frontispiece
may be a plate, or may be an integral part of a gathering. 

Illustration. [Stet.]

Impression.  [Stet.]

*Issue.  [Stet.]

Leaf of plates.  [Stet.]

Plate.  [N.B.: major revision.]  A primarily illustrative leaf that is not an
integral part of a gathering.  [DELETING: "excepting an illustrated title
page
"]  Tables,  %scores, and added title pages%  printed on leaves that are
not an integral part of a gathering are also treated as plates.

Single-sheet publication. [Stet.]

*State.  [Stet.]

Title page.  The leaf on which the  %title proper%  appears.  [Stet for
remainder.]

Title proper.  [Stet, except omit "See also Chief title."]

Variant.  [Stet.]

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Robert L. Maxwell
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Cataloger
6428 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 378-5568
robert_maxwell at byu.edu
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