[DCRM-L] Press figures in an incunable??

[Schneider, Nina]

Dear Richard.

I see what you mean... the 2nd edition of the Examples - from which we used for the first 48 examples - actually has a 500 note about press figures. Either this 500 note was inadvertently missed or was somehow deleted from one of the drafts. Sorry about that.

I guess someone should start an corrigenda.

Nina


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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Noble, Richard
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:44 AM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Press figures in an incunable??

I've just added DCRM(B) Examples to my Cataloger's Desktop preferences, and in Example 1 see that there's a 655 for "Press figures". That represents a significant bibliographical discovery, to say the least, since press figures were used only by British printers from the late C17 into the third decade of the C19 (plus a couple of late C18 Philadelphia printers).

Sorry to bring this up--I probably didn't take advantage of an opportunity to review. I know that the examples are more an illustration of the treatment of information, rather than the nature of the information treated, but this is odd.

What are these press figures? There's nothing in the 5XX notes that refers to them.

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