[DCRM-L] Gramatically inseparable place and publisher in fictitiousimprint

[Deborah J. Leslie]

I don't know if you'd call me an imaginary friend, Erin, but I'm certainly not an imaginary colleague. (-; According to DCRM(B), if an imprint is completely false, you transcribe it as it and then give the correction as a whole in square brackets. See 4A4. It's complicated by the fact that your date isn't fictitious, although obscured, and the place and name of publication are grammatically inseparable. Here's my shot at following 4A4 and 4C3.
 
260 ǂa [Frankfurt-am-Main] : ǂb Pius Secularis excudit Francofurti, ǂc [1706] [i.e., ǂa Amsterdam : ǂb Carel Allard?, ǂc 1706]. 

The subfields are all repeatable, so I believe the ability to tag place and name of both ficitious and actual imprints, search indexes based on these subfields will be accurate. 

And Erin, whatever are you doing working on a Sunday afternoon?

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Subject: [DCRM-L] Gramatically inseparable place and publisher in fictitiousimprint

While seeking examples for the DCRM(G) draft, a satirical print with the false publication statement "Pius Secularis excudit Francofurti" came up in the British Museum catalogue. According to Frederik Muller, it was probably engraved and published by Carel Allard, in Amsterdam. So, I guess you'd supply both the fictitious and the probable place of publication in square brackets? That is:

[Frankfurt-am-Main, i.e. Amsterdam?] : Pius Secularis [i.e. Carel Allard?] excudit Francofurti, [1706]

To make it even more interesting, it's dated with a chronogram!

It's so unusual that it really doesn't bear putting in DCRM(G) as an example, but I couldn't resist sharing it with other people who might appreciate the situation. (After all, that's what imaginary friends on the internet are for, right?)

   EB.

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