[DCRM-L] Barton, Vegetable materia medica - New info in old OCLC bottles

[Noble, Richard]

Submitted for comment, though I think the approach is basically valid.

William P.C. Barton's *Vegetable materia medica* has been recorded as two
2-volume editions, 1817-1818 (or -[1819]) and 1825 second edition. The
bibliographical reality is more complex, and could not have been sorted out
without access to multiple digital copies.

There seemed to be no alternative to a thorough revision of two selected
master records (from among the many alternatives), even though the
correspondence between actual manifestations and details of OCLC holdings
is far from consistent--but it was already inconsistent, as discovered by
recourse to IRs, which were of considerable utility in this case.

The record for the second edition (1825) includes a 500 $5 note of the kind
that we recently discussed,  which seems appropriate for locally developed
general information (though there may be something in the literature "out
there" that never found its way into library records).

http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b7116520  (= OCLC #9803177)

http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b1650154  (= OCLC #2167105)

I wish there were some efficient way of alerting key holding libraries to
such matters.

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
<Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>
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