[DCRM-L] 12mos with missigned third leaves

[Noble, Richard]

This is the standard ca. 1st half of c19 way of signing the offcut in
formats that have them (12mo and 18mo for the most part). It doesn't mean
"2nd leaf" but "2nd printed signature in this gathering".

The signing statement can most easily read: $1,3 signed; signing $3 as '$2'.

Numerical signatures were usually asterisked: $1,3 signed; signing $3 as
'$*'.

In 12s you may find: $1,2,5 signed; signing $5 as '$3'.

A selection of *exempla* here:

http://josiah.brown.edu/search~S7/X?SEARCH=%28%22signing%203%20as%202%22%29&SORT=D

http://josiah.brown.edu/search~S7/X?SEARCH=%28%22signing%205%20as%203%22%29&SORT=D



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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Will Evans <evans at bostonathenaeum.org>
wrote:

> Two 12mos (or what I think are 12mos) have crossed my desk in the past 24
> hours each with gatherings of 6 leaves, one a 1787 New Brunswick, New
> Jersey imprint, the other an 1822 Dublin, Ireland imprint, and both have
> gatherings where the third leaf is consistently missigned as the second
> leaf (e.g. A3 is signed A2). Is this just a fluke, or am I missing some
> known irregular printing practice?
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> Best,
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> Will
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