[DCRM-L] Folded tables

[Robert Steele]

Argh. [8] folded pages, not [4].

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

(Not my day).

Bob




On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 3:56 PM Robert O. Steele <rosteele2021 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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