[DCRM-L] new record for variant?

[Jennifer Schaffner]

Please forgive my ignorance. Is it community "best practise" to make new records for variants?

A novice,

Jennifer Schaffner 

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> On Nov 9, 2016, at 09:36, Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at FOLGER.edu> wrote:
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> I think we all got an education about mid-19th century publishing practices!
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> I would make a new record. For publication date, I'd use [between 1845 and 1855]. Make a note that the board is dated 1845, but title page is undated, indicating that it's probably a later reprint. (In a confusing situation such as this, I think it's fine to hold the user's hand more than usual.) As for the cut-off of 1855, a search of the American Antiquarian Society's catalog shows that the last publication date for Uriah Hunt & Son at 44 Fourth Street was 1855; they seem to have moved to 62 Fourth Street by 1857.
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> Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Senior Cataloger, Folger Shakespeare Library | djleslie at folger.edu | 202.675-0369 | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | www. folger.edu | orcid.org/0000-0001-5848-5467
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> Hello all,
> I am currently cataloging the 1845 edition Edward Hazen's The panorama of professions and trades, Philadelphia : Uriah Hunt & Son, and all the records I have found for it have "1845" in the t.p. imprint, but mine does not. My copy is in original publisher's boards and it does have the "1845" in the imprint on the cover. Aside from the absence the date on the t.p. everything else is exactly the same, layout, type setting, pagination, illustrations, etc. I know because I compared against an online copy. Even the boards are the same. So, new record or just a note detailing it as a variant? And, yes, I have already consulted Appendix E of the DCRMB. Still not sure.
> Thanks
> -Silvana
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