Copy-specific notes and Provenance

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Non-negative physical characteristics

Imperfections

• Lacking Leaves
• Mutilations
• Repairs
• Miscellaneous

Provenance

Copy notes are optional except when mandated by general notes in record.

Non-negative physical characteristics

• Variant
• Settings: A2, B1
• MS. notes or MS. notes by the author?
• Bibliographical MS. notes
• Copious MS. notes
  --- use only when notes occupy a space equal to at least 10% of the book
• MS. date: 11 July 1648
• MS. price
• Uncut
• Unopened and uncut
• Author 's presentation copy
• Engr. port. of author supplied or + Engr. port of author
• T.p. ruled in red
• Grangerized
  --- i.e. extra-illustrated
• Err. pasted to G4v
• Slip-cancel on A3v
• Interleaved
• Binding signed by the Club Bindery, 1904
  --- Note: when there is information about the binder, this precedes notes concerning variants and is followed by a period.
• Binder's ticket of Joseph Smith, London
• Bound by "name"
  --- where the binder's name is known but the item is not signed

Imperfections

Lacking Leaves

• -T.p.
  --- Item is lacking the title page
• -P.l.
  --- Item lacks all unnumbered leaves at beginning
• -F.l.
  --- Item lacks all unnumbered leaves at end
• -1p.l. or -1f.l.
  --- used when it's unclear exactly which p.l. or f.l. is missing
• -Blanks
• -Last leaf
• -S2
• -S2 (blank)
  --- an extenuation--used only if blank not identified as such in bib segment
• -Init. (or Final) blank
• -All after 2Q1 (or p. 260 if signatures not available)
• -Quire Q
• Quire Q in photostat from CSmH
• -Err.
• -Adv.
• ?P.l.
  --- use when copy in hand has a p.l. and other copies matched don't mention one
• ?Blank
  --- use when copy in hand has a blank and other copies matched don't mention one
• ?Frontis.
  --- use when copy in hand has a frontis. and other copies matched don't mention one

Mutilations

• T.p. mutilated, affecting imprint
• Cropped at fore-edge or head or foot
• Cropped or Cropped, affecting pagination, signatures, etc.
• Trimmed
  --- a less drastic form of cropped
• Wormed

Repairs

• T.p. backed
• T.p. repaired at inner margin
• T.p. mounted on a stub
• Last 3 leaves silked
• Inlaid
• Cut up and mounted on stubs

Miscellaneous

• A4r lightly printed
• Q3,4 transposed
  --- i.e. Q4 misbound before Q3
• [par.]5,6 transposed
  --- Signatures named with English names, i.e. "par." or "dagger" etc. are placed in brackets, but signatures with Greek names, i.e. "pi" (as initial signature) and "chi" (as next unsigned signature) take no brackets.
• S4 from another copy
• Outer leaves mounted at inner margins

Provenance

Always precede the following items with "Provenance:"; separate items by semicolon; list chronologically when possible.

• bookplate of the Bridgewater library
• Bridgewater copy
• anonymous armorial bookplate (motto "Sumus quod sumus")
• book-label of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth
  --- for a small printed slip probably added by a later bookseller or executor
• inscription: "Elizabeth gives Battums her book 1728"
• bought by CSmH at Anderson Galleries, 9 Feb. 1921:286
• Anderson Galleries sale, 9 Feb. 1921:286
  --- If not certain that CSmH was buyer
• bought by CSmH from Clarence Saunders Brigham, March 1921
• binding stamped with initials W.F.
• signature of John Jones with purchase price
• signatures of Joseph Forbes (?), and John Bunyan, 1651
• DFo duplicate, with their bookplate or with discharge stamp
• binding stamped with monogram of William Henry Miller
• MS. book label of Thomas Achelley
• author's presentation copy to "name:
• collated by Max Privett at Quartich, 26 June 1912
• blind stamp of the Bridgewater library
• bookplate of the Huth library (sale, 2:211) or sale 5, 4-7 July 1916:5115