[DCRM-L] Signature practice with odd leaf number

[Kate Moriarty]

Hi Ken,

This sounds as good as you can get it without access to the sewing. A couple
of suggestions I'd make are give the second pi designation as a superscript
"2" and bracket the "1" of the first signed signature since it's inferred,
to read:

pi4 2pi1 [1]-168 174 chi1 184

In case the superscripts don't make it through email: pi[superscript 4]
[superscript 2]pi1 [1]-16[superscript 8] 17[superscript 4] chi1
18[superscript 4]

-Kate

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Ken Rockwell <ken.rockwell at utah.edu> wrote:

> Well, here I go displaying my inexperience...  It'll take some time to get
> all the variants in signature statements down, so thought I'd try a little
> public embarrassment and throw out this "odd" one:
>
> I have a book with 5 preliminary leaves (roman numeral x on last), an
> unsigned gathering of 8, then the signatures kick in with numeral 2 through
> 16 in eights; gathering 17 has 5 leaves, and gathering 18 (with heading
> "Supplement") has 4.  [Book is a 2nd edition, so the supplement may have
> been added with this edition.]  The binding is too tight to find the sewing,
> so I can't tell which leaf in either groups of 5 is the extra.
>  Here's my stab at a signature statement:      pi4 2pi1 1-16⁸ 17⁴ chi1 18⁴
>
> Did I handle the odd leaves correctly?
>
> --Ken Rockwell
>



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