[DCRM-L] Collation conundrum

[Deborah J. Leslie]

I've dealt with this issue before but don't remember how it was resolved. Because it's a bifolium, it seems to make a little more sense to render it:

500 Signatures: pi^2 A^8; pi2 wraps around to enclose gathering A.

There must be a better way to word the note.



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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Lenore Rouse
Sent: Monday, 19 November 2012 10:43
To: 'dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu'
Subject: [DCRM-L] Collation conundrum

Hoping the collective wisdom can suggest the best way to formulate an early 18th-century continental pamphlet of 10 leaves. It's a  4to in 8s with an extra fold wrapped around the regular 8 leaf gathering thus:
[1 blank leaf preceding t.p.],  normal 8-leaf gathering A,  [single leaf comprising p. 17 and blank [18]]

The simplest formula would seem to be:
[pi]1 A^8  [chi]1

with a note explaining that pi and chi are conjugate. This should be simple, a common occurrence for pamphlets, but I find no direction in Bowers and wonder if something more complicated is in order? Because there is another edition of this title, virtually identical save for signings, it seems necessary to record collation in order to disambiguate the 2 (or more) extant versions.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Lenore

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