[DCRM-L] Folded tables

[Robert O. Steele]

Or rather 300  62, [2] pages, [4] folded pages ; ǂc 20 cm (8vo)

Bob

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 3:53 PM Robert O. Steele <rosteele2021 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I know plates are supposed to be omitted from collation formulas, but what
> about unsigned letterpress gatherings with a format different from the rest
> of the work?
>
> I'm cataloging a work consisting of 4 octavo gatherings, with 2 quarto
> "insertions". I would be tempted to call them "folded plates" except that
> they are not plates, but rather letterpress tables. Each insertion is a
> quarto bifolium printed with the same type and on the same paper as the
> rest, and each consisting of 4 distinct pages (the tables do not run across
> the fold). Since they are larger than the octavo gatherings, they are also
> folded up from the bottom.
>
> The quarto bifolia are inserted in reasonable places in my copy, but I'm
> not sure where they were *intended* to be inserted, possibly inside the
> last blank leaf (at the end of the final page: "Suit le tableau ... etc.")
>
> The simplest:
>
> 62, [2] pages (8vo), [4] pages (4to)
>
> Signatures: [1]⁸ 2-4⁸ (last leaf blank).
>
> With a note explaining the quarto insertions.
>
> But I'm not sure this is accurate.
>
> I'm tempted by something more complicated such as:
>
> Signatures: : [1]⁸ 2-3⁸ 4⁸ (4₇+chi-²chi²); last leaf blank.
>
> Advice?
>
> Robert Steele
> GWU Law
>
>
>
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