[DCRM-L] License, privilege, and imprimatur statements

[Randal Brandt]

I routinely give these types of statements in a quoted note. And, I feel 
strongly that they should be recorded somewhere. I'd be open to a 
discussion to revise the rules to give explicit instructions on them.

Randal Brandt

On 4/6/2012 12:02 PM, Deborah J. Leslie wrote:
>
> I regret that we didn't directly address the status of license, 
> privilege, and imprimatur statements that appear on the t.p. in 
> DCRM(B). I was trained to silently omit them as falling under 1A2.2, 
> but have for some years advocated making them a quoted note. I'm 
> increasingly uncomfortable with that stance, since statements that 
> either allow the printing or approve the content seem to me to be as 
> much title (or publication) information as other things we regard as 
> other title information.
>
> I'm cataloging something now that has a ruled license statement 
> between the statement of responsibility and the imprint, making it 
> more prominent than the usual "auec priuilege du roy" that appears at 
> the foot of many title pages.
>
> I'm interested in two things from this community: what do you do with 
> these statements, and what do you think ought to be done with such 
> statements?
>
> Thanks for your thoughts,
>
> Deborah
>
> Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger 
> Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003
> djleslie at folger.edu <mailto:djleslie at folger.edu> | 202.675-0369 | 
> http://www.folger.edu <http://www.folger.edu/>
>

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