[DCRM-L] is there such a thing as a 13cm folio?

[Noble, Richard]

The second part looks like half-sheet 12mo in 4s and 2s (Scots influenced
by the French), so I suppose the rest is 12mo in 2s. I don't think the
first part is folio (printed 2-up on a little table press??)--just set up
that way, probably also as work-and-turn half sheets, perhaps to facilitate
interleaving? The ECCO images are of little help, though there does seem to
be a signature A at the foot of the page that follows the title page in
that presentation.

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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Schneider, Nina <nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu
> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm upgrading a record (ESTC T153806) with the book in front of me and
> have to admit I'm stumped--perhaps those who have seen this before can help.
>
> This 13 cm book is an Scottish almanac from 1747. The first part is 24
> leaves which clearly show sewing through each fold, as if the signatures
> were A^2  B^2 C^2 etc., but the chainlines are horizontal. The second part
> seems to be [x]^4 [x]^2.
>
>  It might be signed, but our copy is so closely trimmed that any evidence
> is lost, save for what might be the top of a letter O and a letter P in the
> second part (12 pages), but in a place where it wouldn't make sense
> sequentially.
>
> It's currently described as a 12mo, which does make sense given the length.
>
> Another thing to note if it matters -- is that the sewing has four holes:
> one gathering is sewn through hole (1 and 2) and (3 and 4), but the next is
> only sewn through (2 and 3). So the pattern is something like this (pretend
> there is no break with nos. 2 and 4):
>
> |               |               |
>         |               |
>         |               |
> |               |               |
>
>
>
> Happy to send photos if it helps. There are no watermarks.
>
> Nina
>
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