[DCRM-L] When printers share a job

[Nipps, Karen]

Hi, Mary – I would follow DCRM(B) Appendix E 1.3 in this instance and make just one record. In all likelihood, they shared printing the formes and each got half of them to issue under their own imprint. - Karen

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Mary Person
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 5:17 PM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] When printers share a job

After spending too long looking through documentation for guidance and not finding any, I’m appealing to my Wiser Colleagues.

I have in hand two copies of Giovanni Nevizzano’s Sylvae nuptialis libri sex (Lyon, 1546) –one printed by Antoine Vincent and the other by Jean Frellon, each with their respective devices, and both “excudebat Symphonorianus Barbierus.”   Aside from the printers’ devices the two copies appear identical.

According the Baudrier’s Bibliographie lyonnaise (v. V, p.241), Frellon and Vincent often shared printing jobs, so I’m wondering how to treat these two copies.
Should they each get a separate record (with a note about the existence of copies of the other’s printing?)?  (My 1st choice)
OR should one record serve for both, with 700s for both printers and notes explaining that the printing of the 1546 edition was shared?

Have I missed an obvious rule or fine print somewhere?

Thank you for any advice you can provide!
Mary

Mary Person
Rare Book Cataloger/Reference Librarian
Historical & Special Collections
Harvard Law School Library

person at law.harvard.edu<mailto:person at law.harvard.edu>



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