[DCRM-L] leaves pasted together to form a single leaf

[Noah Sheola]

Erin, thank you! The explanation that 2 sheets were stuck together and went
through the press that way makes sense, and would account for leaf N6 also
being a double. Now if I can just compose a nice and succinct local noe.

On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM Johnson-DeBaufre, Eric <
eric.johnsondebaufre at trincoll.edu> wrote:

> Hello Noah,
>
> I checked our copy of this book but in our copy N1 is a single leaf. My
> guess is that perhaps because N1 contains an engraving that it was felt
> that that particular engraved plate needed a thicker paper stock. However,
> as there are engravings throughout the book which were made on single
> leaves that doesn't really make good sense.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eric
>
> Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, PhD, MLIS
>
> Special Collections Librarian, Watkinson Library
>
> Trinity College
>
> Hartford, CT 06106
>
> 860-297-4219
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> Hi all,
> Today I encountered a book where, in at least one place, the printer seems
> to have taken two leaves, each blank on one side, and pasted the blank
> sides together, resulting in a single (but doubly thick) leaf, with text on
> both sides. The signatures and pagination are as it would be if it were a
> normal single leaf. I only noticed because the two leaves have mostly
> separated in our copy, and are only partially pasted together. Does anyone
> know anything about this practice and how to describe it?
> The book is A relation of a iourney begun an: Dom: 1610, the third edition
> (1627), if you happen to have a copy at your library. Leaf N1 (pages
> 133-134).
> https://johnjburnslibrary.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/sandys/
>
>
> --
> Noah Sheola
> Senior Special Collections Metadata Librarian
> John J. Burns Library
> Boston College
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>

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Noah Sheola
Senior Special Collections Metadata Librarian
John J. Burns Library
Boston College
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