[DCRM-L] Missed cancellation or binding error? (Or something else?)

[Noble, Richard]

Pretty certainly the intended final gathering  R^4 was printed as a
work-and-turn half sheet. If you were to leave the sheet undivided and fold
it as an 8-leaf gathering, you'd get the sequence R1, R1,R2, R2, R3, R3,
R4, R4. So it looks as if, in this copy, the binder cut the sheet in half,
folded the two half-sheets properly, and mistakenly bound both into one
copy rather than two different ones.

Are you sure that you're not looking at two gatherings of four leaves,
rather than one of eight? Can you see the binding threads? You should see
them between leaves 2 and 3/6 and 7 of the sequence of eight leaves--but in
that case you can't refer to the last four leaves as R5-8, just leaves R1-4
repeated.

Anyway, the repetition of R^4 has to be a binding error, strictly copy
specific. You give the signatures as A-Q^8 R^4, as for ideal copy (= what's
"called for")  in the general description of the book.

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Barbara Tysinger <btysingr at email.unc.edu>
wrote:

>  Hi All,
> I'm hoping I can get in one last collation question before everyone
> disappears for ALA!
>
> I am cataloging a book with consistent gatherings in 8vo, until I reach
> the last gathering.
> It is also appears to be in 8vo, but the gathering should have been split
> between two separate copies.
> As you can see in the scanned version (Google books link below), the last
> signature R (page 257), ends after 4 leaves.
> However my copy has those last pages duplicated. Not additional pages with
> duplicate numbering, but the actual pages duplicated.
> Beginning with the half-title page I have A-S⁸ then the R signature, with
> leaves R1 through R4 repeated as R5 through R8.
> How to I transcribe that into the signature formula? Or do I? Is it a
> "missed" cancellation? A binding error?
> Should I construct the signature formula as though I had a "perfect" copy,
> with a note about the duplicate pages?
>
> Sorry, it seems to me the more I try to explain what I have, the more
> confusing it becomes.
>
> *Filosofía médica ó Principios fundamentales de la ciencia y el* ...,
> tome 2. Madrid, 1802.
> [Translation of *Philosophie médicale, ou, Principes fondamentaux de la
> science* ... Paris, 1796]
> http://books.google.com/books?id=EXjBr9l2-U0C&pg=PA257#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> Thank you in advance for any insights!
>
> Barbara
> ...................All opinions are entirely my own....................
>
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>
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