SMC228H1 Lecture Notes - Collation, Semicolon, Roman Numerals
19 Nov 2012
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4 : a4 a-c4 d4 e-g4; 32 leaves; signed. Gathering d isn"t signed/labelled -- we can assume it"s d because the rest of it has relatively regular labeling. First 2 leaves of each gathering is signed. It is dif cult to nd a book without errors. In some books, not all the gatherings are labelled. 4 : a4 a-c4 d4 e-g4; 32 leaves, signed. We can infer the signature of the d gathering based on the other gatherings in a book. Many times the preliminaries of a book will be unsigned. Preliminaries: the material preceding the main text in a book, such as title page, dedication, preface, and table of contents (williams and abbott 163) Because they"re set after the printing -- odd number of leaves. If the preliminaries are unsigned, you indicate the gathering with a pi symbol: .
