III. Copy-specific notes (optional except when mandated by general notes in record)

  1. Non-negative physical characteristics
    1. Variant
    2. Settings: A2, B1
    3. MS. notes <by the author?>
    4. Bibliographical MS. notes
    5. Copious MS. notes [use only when notes occupy a space equal to at least 10% of the book]
    6. MS. date: 11 July 1648
    7. MS. price
    8. Uncut
    9. Unopened and uncut
    10. Author 's presentation copy
    11. Engr. port. of author supplied <+ Engr. port of author>
    12. T.p. ruled in red
    13. Grangerized [i.e. extra-illustrated]
    14. Err. pasted to G4v
    15. Slip-cancel on A3v
    16. Interleaved
    17. 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.]
    18. Binder's ticket of Joseph Smith, London
    19. Bound by < > [if known but not signed]
  2. Imperfections
    1. -T.p. [lacking the title page]
    2. -P.l. <-F.l.> [this means all unnumbered leaves at beginning or end]
    3. -1p.l. <-1f.l.> [used when it's unclear exactly which p.l. or f.l. is missing
    4. -Blanks
    5. -Last leaf
    6. -S2
    7. -S2 (blank) [an extenuation--used only if blank not identified as such in bib segment]
    8. -Init. (or Final) blank
    9. -All after 2Q1 (or p. 260 if signatures not available)
    10. -Quire Q
    11. Quire Q in photostat from CSmH
    12. -Err.
    13. -Adv.
    14. ?P.l. [use when copy in hand has a p.l. and other copies matched don't mention one]
    15. ?Blank [ditto]
    16. ?Frontis. [ditto]
    17. T.p. mutilated, affecting imprint
    18. Cropped at fore-edge (OR head OR foot)
    19. Cropped <, affecting pagination, signatures, etc.>
    20. Trimmed [a less drastic form of cropped]
    21. T.p. backed
    22. T.p. repaired at inner margin
    23. T.p. mounted on a stub
    24. Last 3 leaves silked
    25. Inlaid
    26. A4r lightly printed
    27. Q3,4 transposed <i.e. Q4 misbound before Q3>
    28. [par.]5,6 transposed [signatures named with English names, i.e. "par." "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]
    29. S4 from another copy
    30. Wormed
    31. Cut up and mounted on stubs
    32. Outer leaves mounted at inner margins
  3. Provenance [Always precede the following items with "Provenance:"; separate items by semicolon; list chronologically when possible]
    1. bookplate of the Bridgewater library
    2. Bridgewater copy
    3. anonymous armorial bookplate (motto "Sumus quod sumus")
    4. book-label of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth [for a small printed slip probably added by a later bookseller or executor]
    5. inscription: "Elizabeth gives Battums her book 1728"
    6. bought by CSmH at Anderson Galleries, 9 Feb. 1921:286
    7. Anderson Galleries sale, 9 Feb. 1921:286 [If not certain that CSmH was buyer]
    8. bought by CSmH from Clarence Saunders Brigham, March 1921
    9. binding stamped with initials W.F.
    10. signature of John Jones with purchase price
    11. signatures of Joseph Forbes (?), and John Bunyan, 1651
    12. DFo duplicate, with their bookplate <with discharge stamp>
    13. binding stamped with monogram of William Henry Miller
    14. MS. book label of Thomas Achelley
    15. author 'e presentation copy to <name>
    16. collated by Max Privett at Quartich, 26 June 1912
    17. blind stamp of the Bridgewater library
    18. bookplate of the Huth library (sale, 2:211) <sale 5, 4-7 July 1916:5115>
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