[DCRM-L] Beta symbol in statement of extent

[Jane Stemp Wickenden]

Will,

I think it represents a computer script unable to cope with italic l. for leaf (possibly from a WordPerfect original?) and substituting the beta, so you are right.

Best regards

Jane

On 3 January 2018 21:44:22 GMT+00:00, Will Evans <evans at bostonathenaeum.org> wrote:
>Hi All,
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>Some of our older bib records from retrocon have a beta symbol in the
>statement of extent (see below), which would appear to represent
>unnumbered
>leaves. Could anyone confirm if the beta symbol was used to indicate
>unnumbered leaves, and identify source of this practice in
>bibliographical
>description? I didn’t find any reference to it in Bowers.
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>   - Main Author: Brangwyn, Frank, 1867-1956.
><https://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/search?searchArg=Brangwyn%2C%20Frank%2C%201867-1956.&searchCode=NAME&searchType=4>
>- Title: A book of bridges, by Frank Brangwyn A. R. A., and Walter Shaw
>   Sparrow.
>  - Publishing Details: London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company,
>   1915.
> - Description: xiv p., 2 β., 3-415 p. col. front., illus., col. plates
>   27 cm.
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>Best,
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>Will
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