[DCRM-L] Advice re late edition of engravings

[Erin Blake]

If you can wait a couple of months, you'll be able to catalog them as officially as graphic material, despite the title page, and code it DCRM(G). You'll also find instructions for restrikes, and your options for treating them as different issues/editions or not in DCRM(G). I'm up against a deadline at the moment, but can point you to the relevant sections this evening.

For what it's worth, the DFo record actually does go further than the note "printed on wove paper" in order to distinguish it from others. The 260$c says "[between 1590 and 1600, but this impression later]" -- not great, but it is coded as "less than full level cataloging" so that it can be upgraded easily, and to warn people away from treating it canonically.

   Erin.

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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: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:29 PM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Advice re late edition of engravings

I am faced with rather a rather badly cataloged volume containing Jan van der Straet's series of engravings Venationes and Vermis sericus. They are bound together, and were printed at the same time in the same manner: chine-collé, the thinner paper rather grey, the mounting paper thick laid stock. The Vermis sericus plates are in their final state, with the name of the publisher, Philippe Galle, crudely scratched out in all six plates.

Given the method, these have to be 19th, or perhaps late 18th-century strikes (though the plates have held up reasonably well). They're in an early 20th-century binding,  but dirt on the first page indicates that this was a re-binding, done by B.H. Blackwell, as dealers or for the purchaser of our volume (in 1929, for $80...).

There is no one record in OCLC for these publications that corresponds to this description, though some refer to "mounted" prints, which could indicate in some cases an ignorant description of chine-collé. But apart from that, is there any point in worrying about this being an "issue" or "edition" worthy of its own record? Even if not technically so, there are so many dups at this point that it hardly matters, and at least I have a shot at describing then with some degree of precision.

(I do note that the Folger has cataloged its copy of Vermis sericus with a note "Printed on wove paper", a clear hint that these plates met paper a couple of centuries after they were engraved. DFo hasn't gone further than that in distinguishing their copy from others, which one could hardly do anyway based on records alone.)

I presume that, since these are monographs with title pages, they have to be treated as books, with additional apparatus to account for their graphic qualities.

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