[DCRM-L] Errata leaves at end of volume

[Noble, Richard]

An unusual situation, and an unusually informative copy. These are revised
pages--in other words, cancel leaves ("cancellantia", if you want to be
fancy about it) meant to replace leaves containing errors of some kind that
were to be cancelled (the "cancellanda") and replaced with the cancellantia
in course of binding. The usual practice of printers was to slash the
leaves to be cancelled, in order to force the binder to make the extra
effort required to remove and replace the leaves, but that didn't happen in
this case--though at least the binder didn't throw away the cancellantia.

Your copy is therefore anomalous. The book should be described as if the
replacement had been done, since that was the intended form of the book
("ideal copy" in bib-speak), with a copy-specific note about your copy. If
I were doing this ('cause it's the sort of thing I do...) I'd add a note to
the OCLC record (assuming there is one) describing how the cancels were
printed, because what you have is manifestation-level evidence *about*
correctly bound copies that isn't available in them. (Cancels can usually
be spotted in detailed examination, but reconstructing the printing of the
cancellantia is difficult-to-impossible.)

Congratulations on your find ...

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On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:32 PM Jones, Angela <arjones at mail.smu.edu> wrote:

> I have a rather unusual situation, and I am hoping someone can help!
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> I am cataloging a volume that has a number of re-printed pages at the end
> of the work; there are a total of 18 such pages. For example, pages 61-66
> are reprinted at the back of the book, with some changes in the text. Those
> pages are followed by a reprint of pages 163-164, then a reprint of pages
> 455-458, etc. Not only are the original page numbers retained, but the
> original signatures on those pages are retained. Page 163 is marked with X2
> on both the original version in the text as well as the revised page
> printed at the end of the book.
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> I plan to put in a note about these. Should I call these pages errata
> leaves, revised pages, or something else?
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> I’m also not sure exactly how to record the extent of the errata leaves at
> the end of the volume in the pagination statement in the 300 field. They do
> have page numbers, but the numbering is not continuous. Would it be correct
> to record that last sequence as “[18] pages in various pagings”? Or should
> I ignore the page numbers in this case and record “[18] pages”? This is
> somewhat complicated by the fact that the next to last section of the book
> is unpaged.
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> The book is *Recuëil d'arrests de règlement et autres arrests notables,
> donnez au Parlement de Normandie …*, printed in Rouen, France, in 1748.
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> Thanks in advance for any advice!
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> Angela
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> Angela Jones
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> Head of Technical Services
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> Underwood Law Library, Dedman School of Law
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> Southern Methodist University
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> P.O. Box 750354
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> Dallas, TX 75275-0354
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> 214-768-1827
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> arjones at smu.edu
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