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Excerpt from Compiling a Bibliography: Practical Hints With Illustrative Examples Concerning the Collection, Recording, and Arrangement of Bibliographical Materials
The next information to follow is the num ber of pages and signatures. Care should be taken that no inserted leaves or starred pages are overlooked and any irregularity in the number of leaves to_ signatures should be carefully noted.
Then follows the record of illustrative mat ter. First in order should come plates, maps, tables, diagrams, etc., or matter which has been printed independently of the regular sig natures and afterwards inserted and bound up with the work. Following these may be added the number of text illustrations in the follow ing order, woodcuts, etc., facsimiles, and head and tail pieces, if other than conventional.
This in general closes the bibliographical record of the book from a material point of view.
Following this may come as notes, Ist, a list of the contents or a synopsis of the mat ter contained in the text. Ad, a list of the illustrations in the order above named with titles or description of each, especially if no such list appears in the book itself. And 3d a list of the maps, charts, diagrams, etc. The title, size, and scale Of each map should here be given.
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