[DCRM-L] plate numbering

[Lapka, Francis]

Colleagues,

If the plates of a book do not bear numbering but they are paired with pages of letterpress (usually facing each plate) that refer to the plates by number, do you consider those plates numbered, transcribing the numbering in the form that appears on the paired letterpress?

Justifying the "yes, those are numbered" argument, we could I suppose point to 5A2 to "Take information for this area from the publication itself" - i.e., its entirety, even if the plates proper are unnumbered. In the "nope" camp, the plates proper do not present themselves as numbered. If we open the door to transcribing numbering from other than the letterpress/plate itself, could we also (following the same logic) transcribe numbering based on numbers in tables of contents or indexes? That seems undesirable.

Francis


Francis Lapka
Senior Catalog Librarian
Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
Yale Center for British Art
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