{"id":110,"date":"2013-03-05T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slisapps.sjsu.edu\/blogs\/280\/azurite\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2013-03-05T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:53:12","slug":"pb-physical-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/printed-book-project\/pb-physical-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Description &#8211; I"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Size and Format<\/h2>\n<p><em>The Housekeeper&#8217;s Valuable Present<\/em> is a duodecimo, abbreviated as 12mo. \u00a0A duodecimo&#8217;s leaves are printed twelve at a time and is then cut and folded (MARC, 2011). \u00a0It is 18 cm ( approx. 7 inches) tall.<\/p>\n<h2>Paper<\/h2>\n<p>There are no visible watermarks in\u00a0<em>The Housekeeper&#8217;s Valuable Present<\/em>, and there is no note in the Library of Congress&#8217;s bibliographic record regarding the paper. \u00a0The lack of lines that would be created by the production of laid paper combined with the publication date\u00a0presumed\u00a0to be around 1790 (predating the Fourdriner and mechanized paper production), the paper is most likely wove (Avrin, 1991, p. 295-297).<\/p>\n<h2>Foliation or Pagination<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_118\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-118   \" src=\"http:\/\/slisapps.sjsu.edu\/blogs\/280\/azurite\/files\/2013\/03\/pagination1-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"216\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Table of Contents &#8211; pagination and signature marks.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_119\" style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slisapps.sjsu.edu\/blogs\/280\/azurite\/files\/2013\/03\/pagination2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-119 \" src=\"http:\/\/slisapps.sjsu.edu\/blogs\/280\/azurite\/files\/2013\/03\/pagination2-177x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Main text &#8211; pagination and signature marks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The book consists of ten signatures, the first nine with six leaves\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 18px\">each and the last with two. \u00a0Pagination begins with the preface (page iv) and continues through the table of contents (ending on page xii). \u00a0These first page numbers are printed in the header of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 18px\">each page, on the upper outside corner of each page. \u00a0In the text itself, the pagination moves to the center of the top of each page and is set off by brackets. \u00a0Signatures are marked at the bottom of pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Printer&#8217;s Device<\/h2>\n<p>There is no visible printer&#8217;s device in the Library of Congress&#8217;s copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Size and Format The Housekeeper&#8217;s Valuable Present is a duodecimo, abbreviated as 12mo. \u00a0A duodecimo&#8217;s leaves are printed twelve at a time and is then cut and folded (MARC, 2011). \u00a0It is 18 cm ( approx. 7 inches) tall. Paper There are no visible watermarks in\u00a0The Housekeeper&#8217;s Valuable Present, and there is no note in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}