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

[Wingreen-Mason, Daria]

Check out Stafleu and Cowan’s Taxonomic literature 2nd ed. (TL2), v. 1 (1976), p. 192-193, no. 324 for references to “out there” literature. It also provides you with publication dates of the parts.

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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.

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