[DCRM-L] Folio or broadsheet?

[Noble, Richard]

What's the book, and when and where was it published?

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Ted P Gemberling <tgemberl at uab.edu> wrote:

> I am cataloging a book that I’m pretty sure is broadsheet format. The
> dimensions of the sheets are approximately 53 x 35 cm., and the table on p.
> 86 of Gaskell (New Introduction to Bibliography. Oak Knoll Press, 2007)
> seems to show that as too large for any folio. And in addition, most of the
> “gatherings” in the book are only one leaf. It has vertical chainlines, and
> near the top of p. 106, Gaskell seems to say that broadsheets can have
> vertical chainlines. So how could it be anything but broadsheet? But on the
> same page, he also says “the watermark would be offset from the middle of
> the leaf.” And in the leaves where I’ve found a watermark, it seems to be
> about in the middle of the leaf. Does that disqualify it from being
> broadsheet? Am I missing something?
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> Thanks for any enlightenment!
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> Ted P. Gemberling
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> Historical Collections Cataloger
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