RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Printing and Publishing Terms

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Signatures
::: Multiple printers
:::     SN: Use for evidence of a book having been set or printed by
::: division among different workmen or firms
:::     SC: rbpri Printing Terms
::: Compositor's work (Gathering term; do not assign)
:::     SN: Gathering term; do not use; index under a narrower term.
:::     SC: rbpri Printing Terms
:: Composition
::     SC: rbpri Printing Terms
Direction lines
:     SN: Use for lines located directly below the text, mostly blank
: but containing catchwords, signatures, and/or press figures
:     SC: rbpri Printing Terms
Signatures
Signature registers
.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms
.     SN: Use for the lists or summaries of signatures often printed
. at the end of early printed books
Signing patterns
.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms
.. Signing irregularities
..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms
... Signing gaps
...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms
... Signing repetitions
...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms
... Unsigned gatherings
...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

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