[DCRM-L] Folio format question

[silvanan at mptek.net]

hi Deborah,
I already sent the book on to preservation. It was pretty narrow
compared to height, did
not not look like a quarto at all. But I believe it is. I got this
response from exlibris:

Double-size sheets of paper were sometimes cut in half for printing,
since
the old hand presses were not sufficiently powerful for such a large
surface. In Principles of Bibliographical Description, at p. 194, Bowers
terms the form folio-form quarto, the principle being that the format is
determined by the number of leaves per sheet, regardless of how imposed
or
printed.

Michael Wasserman
Nostre Livers - Antiquarian and Scholarly Law Books

I read up on it and it totally fits the bill. 
It just feels so strange describing it a quarto!

-Silvana



> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Folio format question
> From: "Deborah J. Leslie" <DJLeslie at FOLGER.edu>
> Date: Tue, December 01, 2009 5:19 pm
> To: "DCRM Revision Group List" <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> What is the other measurement, Silvana? 33 cm is pretty tall for a
> quarto, but the proportion of height to width would give us more
> information. 
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> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:37:22 -0700
> From: silvanan at mptek.net
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> Hi all,
> Can a folio have horizontal chain lines?
> My book:
> Philostratus De uita Apollonii Tyanei scriptor luculentus 
> Venice : Vitali, 1502
> 33 cm
> sig: A-L6 M-N4 O6
> w/ horizontal chain lines (can't really see any watermarks)
> Sure looks like a folio to me ...
> -Silvana
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> EDIT16 lists it as a quarto, which accords with the horizontal chain 
> lines. Same fingerprint?
> See: http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it/scripts/iccu_ext.dll?fn=10&i=37827
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