[DCRM-L] CV question

[JOHN LANCASTER]

Smith College has three of these - they are not terribly uncommon; Google "holt" "slips for librarians to paste on catalogue cards" for a number of titles.  I suspect a trawl of Holt books from the 1880s-1890s in the general collection of many libraries would turn up several.  The slips would only be noted for those that happen to find their way into special collections, I imagine.

John Lancaster


> On Mar 5, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Noble, Richard <richard_noble at brown.edu> wrote:
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> It's CIP (quite literally, even though some 82 years avant la lettre), so "CIP leaf?"--a somewhat lighthearted suggestion.
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> - Has anyone else seen one?
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> - Could we see an image of this one? I'm curious to see what 1889 CIP looks like.
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> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Matthew C. Haugen <matthew.haugen at columbia.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently came across something in a book I haven't seen before: printed descriptions of the book meant to be excised and pasted onto library catalog cards. 
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> The book is Our familiar songs and those who made them. New York : Henry Holt and company, 1889.
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> The text printed on the preliminary leaf begins: "Slips for Librarians to paste on Catalogue Cards. N.B.--Take out carefully, leaving about quarter of an inch at the back. To do otherwise would, in some cases, release other leaves." This is followed by the text for for 5 cards, for author, title, a variant title and two subject entries.
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> From the description and signing pattern, I take this to be an integral leaf. I imagine some copies might have only a stub suggesting that this leaf was removed. Or, perhaps this was a separate issue distributed to libraries and this text wasn't included in all copies?  I have a copy of the Holt 1881 edition which has a blank preliminary in this place. 
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> It does seem to be an interesting case, but I'm not sure how best to describe it, nor can I find an obvious term in the controlled vocabularies. I'll consider proposing one if needed. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew
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