[DCRM-L] Question about interpreting/recording signatures

[Huber, Seth]

I am still new to rare book cataloging and I’ve run across a signature situation I can’t quite decipher. The book in question was printed in Pennsylvania in 1810. The bulk of the signatures are clear; they run [A]⁸ B-C⁸ [D]⁸ E-N⁸, but things get confusing with O. The gathering proceeds in the same fashion as the preceding ones for four leaves, but the leaf following O4 is signed with what I am reading as “O2”, and it is the first of what appears to be a two-leaf gathering. I am fairly certain there is visible stitching between O2-O3, so my inclination is these are indeed separate gatherings, but recording it as O22 does not seem correct. Assuming I am interpreting things correctly, what is the best way to record this final gathering? Thanks for any help, advice, etc.

Seth Huber
Technical Services Librarian/Head of Cataloging
University of Missouri—Columbia
huberse at missouri.edu<mailto:huberse at missouri.edu>
573-884-4648


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