[DCRM-L] Gathered in 9's?

[Hillyard, Brian]

Hello Deborah

 

Hector Macdonald, "A book gathered in nines", The Bibliotheck, 7
(1974-75), 76-78, referring to C. Stower, The printers' grammar (London,
1808), p. 199, on 18mo books printed by half sheet imposition, and
Gaskell, New introduction, p. 329.  Hector is describing NLS H.M.289, an
Edinburgh imprint of 1781 = ESTC T87195 where the format is given as
18mo.  He records the collation of this book as a2 A-N9 O7 and says that
in gatherings A-N you can see the sewing between the fourth leaf and its
conjugate and the fifth leaf is tipped into the inner margin of the
conjugate of the fourth leaf, which matches your description. (I've not
examined our book myself.)

 

Best wishes

 

Brian

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
Sent: 29 November 2012 17:06
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Gathered in 9's?

 

We're cataloging an 1825 Boston imprint of William Bellamy, Select
comedies from Shakspeare, which is gathered in 9's throughout. Our
deteriorating copy with uncut leaves have helped us determine that the
singleton is inserted after the 4th leaf of each gathering. 

 

I've long known about the existence of gatherings in 9's--and give it as
the one exception to prohibition against signature statements with a
superscript odd number--and am pretty sure I even handled one at the
Library Company, but can't track down documentation on it. The
ExLibris-L archives are down so I can't search there. I seem to remember
it as a Philadelphia German thing. Before we put down the signatures as
A-L^9, though, it would be nice to have confirmation that this
formulation is legit. As for identifying the format, Jaggard
(Shakespeare bibliography) calls it a 12mo but I'm inclined to call it
an 8vo.      

 

Thanks,

Deborah  

 

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