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<font size=3>At 2/5/2014 06:45 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">My favorite -- at Harvard -- is
five of the six catalogues of the<br>
Salem Athenaeum library (1811, 1818, 1826, 1842, an 1849 Supplement,<br>
and 1858) bound by their collector into one volume,. This is<br>
cataloged by Harvard under one and only one of the titles and dates<br>
-- 1842. Nobody would know they had four others on
paper.</blockquote><br>
This bound collection of five separately-published works which Harvard
holds was scanned for Google. The clue for metadata (at least this
one instance) is that the Harvard catalogue (Hollis) calls it only an
1842 edition, while Google calls it only an 1811 edition. The title
page of the 1811 edition is the first title page in the volume.<br><br>
(On one handwritten early leaf, one can read the actual contents of this
one volume -- a list of the five catalogues. An earlier tipped-in
sheet lists seven catalogues, but that is "all that have been
printed to my knowledge", writes Henry Wheatland; two are for the
Salem "Social Library" and not bound in with the other
five.)<br><br>
Joel</font></body>
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