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

[Barbara Tysinger]

Richard to the rescue!
Yes, it does appear to be two gatherings of four, probably, as you say, 
printed as a work and turn. So a copy specific binding error.
Thank you!
Barbara

On 6/24/2014 1:43 PM, Noble, Richard wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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