[DCRB-L] WG3: Publication area

[Deborah J. Leslie]

4A3. Manon is quite right that we need better instructions for out-of-usual-order elements in this area. I am in favor of transposing as necessary here following the same rules for transposition in the title and statement of responsibility area, with the additional firm instruction to make a note on transposition.

4E. I have always been troubled by the departure from the transcription principle that this formulation of the 260$g requires. Let's fold this into consideration of multiple 260$b's or the use of 260$e$f for additional printer statements. Possibly the same principle guiding our decision for printers can be put to work for impression dates. 

p. 10: "In early printed books, each new printing usually corresponded to a new edition because it involved a different setting of type" is an overstatement. That might be said to be usually true for very early books, incunables & 16th books. But as time went on and type became relatively less expensive and printers were able to keep larger stocks, they could and did tie up and keep formes of hand-set type for additional impressions. Can you reword this so that the inaccuracy about HP books doesn't distract from the argument you are trying to make about printing from plates? 

p. 10 bottom. Any rewording should take into account that an impression date might appear on the t.p.



Deborah J. Leslie
Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
Head of Cataloging
Folger Shakespeare Library
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