[DCRM-L] Treatment of advertisements

[Noble, Richard]

The example cited *is* a "machine-press" book (Lee & Shepard was
established in 1862), noted in response because "also applies to
machine-press books" would seem to imply that this is not such a book.

Anyway, advertisements will almost always (a little whimper of an "almost",
that) be found, often in multiple forms, in multiples of copies; and it is
especially in machine-press books that non-integral advertisements may be
regarded as evidence of conditions of issue that ought not to be overlooked
in manifestation-level description.

I'm in favor of the quasi-copy-level--call it "sub-manifestation"?--note
(500 with $5) that accounts for such evidence, since 590s are now invisible
outside institutional databases, a survey of which is seldom practicable or
economically defensible in the course of cataloging that might otherwise
benefit from the information--that is, make for a better informed account
of the copy-in-hand, advertisements and all.

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu>
wrote:

> Situation: Tendency to include advertisement leaves in physical
> description instead of copy note
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> DCRM(B) 5B5.2 makes it clear that for pages containing only
> advertisements, the default is to treat them as copy-specific unless there
> is definitive evidence that they were printed as part of the publication
> text block. Evidence is provided by: integral nature of the adverts to
> gatherings of text, continuous paging, continuous signatures, or a
> catchword connecting the adverts to the text. (The last condition will be
> added to DCRM(B) the next time it is updated.)
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> For example:
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> 300   ǂa 245, [1] p. <…>
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> 590   ǂa UW-Madison copy: [6] pages of publisher's advertisements at end
> with caption "List of books recently published by Lee & Shepard."
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> 655 7 ǂa Publishers' advertisements. ǂ2 rbgenr ǂ5 WU
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> This stricture also applies to machine-press books in publishers' covers.
> I'm not sure about 20th-century practices, but in the 19th century,
> advertisements were added to text blocks at the binding stage. An excellent
> illustration of varying adverts can be found by comparing the several
> digitized copies of An American girl abroad (1872) available from Hathi
> Trust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005777308.
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> Deborah J. Leslie, MA, MLS | Senior Cataloger, Folger Shakespeare Library
> | djleslie at folger.edu | 201 East Capitol Street, S.E. | Washington, DC
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