When the Rules Change:

Cataloguing Rare Books

The rules

• AACR2 > RDA

• Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (DCRB) > Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) (DCRM(B))

• International Standards of Book Description (Antiquarian) (ISBD(A))

• ESTC

BSC

•UK Bibliographic Standards

Committee of the CILIP Rare Books

and Special Collections Group

•Est. 2005

•Review panel for proposals

The imprint

• Date: 1720 > MDCCXX [1720]

• S.l., s.n., etc.

• Date of publication unknown

• Latin names of places of publication

• False imprints

ISBD(A), Area 4, Option B

“Option B is designed to give guidance to those cataloguing agencies that wish to reflect the phrasing of the original publication more exactly and in a simpler manner. It is assumed that agencies applying exact recording will always create authority forms and/or supply standardized or controlled forms for the different elements of area 4.”

Stockholm, 1776. Trykt hos Henr. Fougt, r. af k.w.o. kongl. boktryckare

Cf

Stockholm : Trykt hos Henr. Fougt, r. af k.w.o. kongl. Boktryckare, 1776.

Note: Printer’s name precedes date of publication on t.p.

In Venetia apresso di Ciotti. [Colophon:] In Venetia, M.DC.XXI. Nella Stamperia dio Gio Battista Ciotti

DCRM(B), 5B9

64 p., [1] leaf of plates

Note: Plate has engraved t.p. on recto and blank verso

Cf

[2], 64 p.

ISBD(A), physical description

• Omission of dimensions

• 16 x 24 cm. > oblong

ISBD(A), pagination

xvi p., p. 17-28

xiv, 176 p., p. 161-832

1-200, [8], p. 201-232

cf

xvi, 17-28 p.

xiv, 176, 161-832 p.

200, [8], 201-232 p.