[DCRM-L] Advice re late edition of engravings

[Noble, Richard]

Sorry to have slandered DFo's cataloger (anyone we know?). I'm working on
the fly here with lots of windows and tabs open. A professor noted a typo
in our record, and I up and got curious; but we're going crazy preparing to
send 100K books offsite before the John Hay library closes down for a year+
for a highly cosmetic renovation (you'll hardly know it's a library when
they're done), so I've added a note to our local records. OCLC will just
have to take care of itself. But I'm very glad to hear that these things
can soon be officially cataloged as graphics: a victory for common sense.

Cheers - Richard

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
<Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Erin Blake <EBlake at folger.edu> wrote:

>  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.****
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> 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.****
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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
> *To:* DCRM Revision Group List
> *Subject:* [DCRM-L] Advice re late edition of engravings****
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> 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.****
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> 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...).****
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> 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.****
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> (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.)****
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> 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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> RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY****
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> BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187****
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