[DCRM-L] Wove papers: local note or not?

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Kate,

 

Throughout the hand press period, printers generally would purchase a
stock of paper for a particular job. Paper was the largest expense, so
the purchasing was done deliberately and specifically. Gaskell has a
chapter on the English book trade; I think you'll find it informative.

 

The only time I think it would be appropriate to refer to the paper at
all in a local note would be if a general note specified, say, that some
copies were printed on wove paper and some on laid paper; then you'd
have a local note to indicate which type of paper your copy had. 

 

Keep in mind that local notes, as a general rule, are used for
characteristics acquired by a book after it has been issued by the
publisher.  

 

I'm not as familiar with the colored paper issue, so someone else should
respond to that.  

 

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Subject: [DCRM-L] Wove papers: local note or not?

 

I noticed in example 45 of _Examples to Accompany Descriptive Cataloging
of Rare Books_ (2nd ed.) that wove papers are not considered a local
note or local genre/form term (there is no $5 [INSTITUTION CODE]
following the 500 or 655). Do you treat wove papers as common to most
copies? Is the assumption that printers worked from large piles of
paper, probably from the same stock? Does the date of printing impact
your decision? Items I have date from the 1790s to 1810, fairly early in
wove paper's general use.

And would that approach also apply to colored papers? I have a 1796
English pamphlet printed on blue paper. I don't know enough about the
use of colored papers but I imagine work flow and time constraints would
cause most of the copies to be printed on blue paper, thus making it a
non-local note and non-local genre/form term?

Thanks for your help,

Kate


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