[DCRM-L] Signature question

[Marilyn McClaskey]

Thanks for the guidance, John.

The History of Sumatra, containing an account of 
the government ... / by William Marsden, F.R.S. 
...   London : Printed for the author and sold by Thomas Payne ... MDCCLXXXIII.

The book is well and truly bound and the pages so 
deep that I cannot tell the structure without 
doing serious damage.  I can see, however, that 
there is a stub between b and c, partially pasted 
to the back of b, but b is sewn in deeply, not 
dependent upon that stub.  I tried tugging at it 
a bit and it seems more like to be [blank] and b 
conjugate, then c and [blank] conjugate.  And 
actually, it may indeed be the stub that is 
conjugate with the first blank and b was pasted 
onto it before binding (which is likely contemporary with the publication)

Hope this helps.

At 04:32 PM 12/26/2012, you wrote:
>The first question that needs to be answered is 
>what the structure of those leaves is.  Do they 
>form two gatherings of two leaves each, or one 
>gathering of four leaves?  (Or is one or more a singleton?)
>
>When asking this sort of question, it's also 
>useful to provide information about the work and edition, for context.
>
>Thanks.
>
>John Lancaster
>
>
>On Dec 26, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Marilyn McClaskey <m-mccl at umn.edu> wrote:
>
> > I have a book that is signed perfectly all 
> the way thru from B-5D².  There are 4 leaves 
> preceding B1.  They are signed [blank] b c 
> [blank]. The first is the tp, and the other 
> three are the preface.  Any clue how I would record that?
> >
> >
> > Marilyn McClaskey
> > Rare Books Cataloger
> > University of Minnesota Libraries
> > m-mccl at umn.edu
> > (612) 626-0127

Marilyn McClaskey
Rare Books Cataloger
University of Minnesota Libraries
m-mccl at umn.edu
(612) 626-0127