[DCRB-L] DCRM Area 7

[Richard Noble]

For local matters DCRM can only suggest, not prescribe (other than that 
copy-specific features should be somehow tagged as such); but

My practice, and I believe that of most other catalogers, is to describe 
the volume as a whole (binding, bookplates, endleaf inscriptions, etc.) in 
the record for the first item only, and also to list all the items in the 
volume up to a certain limit (I usually stop full listings after five, 
unless there's something really interesting about their being bound 
together that the list helps in explaining); subsequent items, in volumes 
containing any more than three or four items, can then be described as e.g. 
"With: <title, etc. of first item>. Item X of Y bound together subsequent 
to publication". Obviously, any copy-specific features of an individual 
item (inscriptions, defects, etc.) would be described in its own record.

It's even more fun when items issued together are bound with other items, 
or when you have duplicate copies in different volumes.

At 7/28/03    12:47 PM, Walter Nickeson wrote:
>For items bound together subsequent to publication ("With" notes): Where
>should copy-specific notes about the bound item go--for example,
>describing an autograph on an endpaper? On all the records, or just on
>that for the first title?


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