Sender: Rare Books and Special Collections Forum <EXLIBRIS@RUTVM1.BITNET>
Upon reading your message I rushed to inspect my copy of Randall and
discovered that I have had lurking on my shelves all these years a
genuine faulty first issue! Thanks for the info.
I'm not going to weave into this thread on ExLibris, but I think that,
lacking a trade usage, the term "printing code" would be best. But
surely there is a term used in the the printing and publishing trades,
and we are just wasting our time with speculative folderole until we
find out what it is. I agree with you that minding the code is the
printer's responsibility rather than the publisher's, although the
latter may be intellectually responsible for it.
The Randall, I see, does not display a code. I wonder if they would have
changed from 123456789 (or is it 1234567890?) to 23456789 when they
made the corrections.
I trust that you have verified that the second issue was not achieved
by cancellation.
Incidentally, were there not the difference in edge coloring, I think
that we would have in this case a second state rather than a second issue.
And finally, I see, looking through a few books, that the 123456789
style is not universally employed for encoding (ANSI to the rescue
eventually), which raises the question of whether the different styles
have or should have different names. Ah bibliography; it keeps so many
people out of [other] trouble, as John Alden used to say.
P.S. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, I am filing this
correspondence under "slug".
<*>-==--==--==--==--==--==--==-<*>-==--==--==--==--==--==--==-<*>
Donald Farren voice 301.951.9479
email p00244@psilink.com fax 301.951.9479 + 23
4009 Bradley Lane, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
<*>-==--==--==--==--==--==--==-<*>-==--==--==--==--==--==--==-<*>