[DCRM-L] nomenclature assistance

[Erin Blake]

The term I know for such sheets is "overs" or "printer's overs" -- you print more than you'll need in order to make sure you'll have enough in case something goes wrong in production. For example, one of the illustration packets at Rare Book School (06e/L-35, in fact) is made up of overs from Barry Moser's Pennyroyal Press "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" -- you wouldn't want to break a fine press book in order to make a teaching packet, but if the leaves were never put together in the first place, you're golden.

Erin.

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Subject: [DCRM-L] nomenclature assistance

Hi everyone

My intern is sorting through the archives of a printer. She's run across a few stacks of printed leaves that seem to be extra printings. That is, if an edition was limited to 100 and the printer printed 103 sheets of one particular forme, then what is left are three extra sheets that are in excess of the edition.

I was thinking of using printers' waste or binders' waste, but that's not quite right. Neither are offprints since this material isn't complete.

Any ideas? It doesn't have to be an RBMS CV term, just a label for an archival collection.

Thanks!

Nina

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