RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Printing and Publishing Terms

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: 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

. Casting off

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.. Casting off errors

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

... Catchword irregularities

...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

... Crowding

...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

... Excess space

...     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

... Type-size change

...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

. Composition errors

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.     SN: Use for dittography, omissions of text, misspelling, and
. any other compositorial errors.

.. Dittography

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

..     SN: Use for unintentional repetition of one or more letters,
.. words, or lines in type-setting, as "literatature" for
.. literature

.. Text omissions

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

..     SN: Use for omission of a word or words from intended text as a
.. result of composition error

. Compositor's copy

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.     SN: Use for the manuscript or book from which the type was set

. Compositor's setting preferences

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.     SN: Use for any evidence of compositorial preference in
. spelling, capitalization, punctuation, justification, etc.

.. Compositor's spelling preferences

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

..     SN: Use for any evidence of compositorial spelling preference

. Direction lines

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.     SN: Use for lines located directly below the text, mostly blank
. but containing catchwords, signatures, and/or press figures

.. Catchwords

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

... Catchword irregularities

...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

... Catchword patterns

...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.. Press figures

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.. Signatures

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

..     SN: Use for the symbols used to distinguish gatherings and put
.. them in order

... 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

. Headlines

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.. Headline patterns

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

... Headline irregularities

...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

. Justification

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.     SN: Use for any evidence of justification process or lack of it

. Page-for-page reprints

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.     SC: rbpub Publishing Terms

.     SN: Use for evidence indicating an item has been set following
. the page make-up of an earlier edition

. Page make-up

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.. Page make-up errors

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

... Inverted blocks

...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

. Pagination

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.     SN: Use for any evidence of pagination, foliation, or
. columniation pattern or practice

.. Pagination errors

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

. Re-setting

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

. Setting order

.     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.. Evidence

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

..     SN: Gathering term; do not use; index under a narroewer term.

... Damaged types

...     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

.. Setting by formes

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

..     SN: Use for evidence that text has been set by formes, i.e., in
.. the order in which it is imposed upon the press, rather
.. than seriatim

.. Setting seriatim

..     SC: rbpri Printing Terms

..     SN: Use for evidence that the text has been set seriatim, i.e.,
.. consecutively from beginning to end, rather than by formes

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