[DCRM-L] Folio or broadsheet?

[Noble, Richard]

Dave Stump has called this one correctly, from the paper evidence of the
single sheets alone. Beyond that, and more definitively, the preliminaries
include what appear from the signatures to be sheets of folio in 2s, and
the text ends with a gathering *^6. (There are some complications that are
not easily resolvable from a page-by-page online display, but basic make-up
is obvious.) If the paper is the same throughout, you have your answer:
it's folio, largely made up of folio half sheets (single leaves),
presumably printed work-and-turn, very efficient and typical of the work of
this period.

The obvious reason for the single leaves is to facilitate binding of the
plate descriptions with the plates.

Based on quick inspection of: http://doc.rero.ch/record/11684


RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:55 AM, David Stumpp <david.stumpp at chch.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Ted,
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> Christ Church Library has a copy, and the binding is just good enough that
> I wouldn’t have been able to say whether leaves were conjugate or not. In
> size, I do think that it just barely qualifies as a Royal folio but is a
> bit too small to be considered an elephant folio or anything larger. That
> all being said, I think that, given the position of the watermarks (ours
> are centered between head and foot, but are, perhaps, a bit offset towards
> the fore-edge) and the direction of the chain-lines, I would have called it
> a folio nonetheless. Could the single-leaf ‘gatherings’ be evidence of the
> printer’s decision to print on half-sheets?
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> In fact, since I have it out, I think that I, too, will catalogue it and,
> at least for the time being, I will call it a folio. Thanks for drawing my
> attention to it, and let me know what you decide to do with yours. And
> happy holidays!
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> Best,
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> Dave
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> David Stumpp
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> Antiquarian Cataloguer
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> The Library
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> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Ted P Gemberling
> *Sent:* 21 December 2015 21:17
> *To:* DCRM Users' Group
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] Folio or broadsheet?
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> It is William Cowper’s Anatomia corporum humanorum, published at Utrecht
> (Ultrajecti) by Nicolaus Muntendam in 1750.
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> Thanks, Ted
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> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Noble, Richard
> *Sent:* Monday, December 21, 2015 3:12 PM
> *To:* DCRM Users' Group
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] Folio or broadsheet?
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> What's the book, and when and where was it published?
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> RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
>
> BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
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> <Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>
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> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Ted P Gemberling <tgemberl at uab.edu>
> wrote:
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> 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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