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Graphic Materials - Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical
Collections
12: Single Item without a True Title (Sample Descriptions in the 1982 Edition) (Reference Illustration 4)
H.R. Robinson, 52 Courtland St. ... : caricatures and prints. -- [New York : H.R. Robinson, 1841 or 1842]
1 print : lithograph, b&w ; hexagon sheet 26 x 45 cm.
Subject: Advertisement for print shop, showing lettering and central motif of wig, a play on Robinson’s work for the Whigs.
Source unknown.
H.R.: Initials are recorded without internal spaces (0H2).
52 Courtland St.: Text on the item provides the only title-like data (1B1.5).
caricatures and prints: Title is abridged, omitting unessential information that consists of a repetition of the street address (1B1.).
H.R. Robinson: Name of publisher is deduced from the text (used as title) and the use of the print as an advertisement for the publisher (2D8).
1841 or 1842: Probable date given according to the pattern in Appendix A (2F5.1).
hexagon sheet: Non-rectangular shape is described (3D4.3).
Subject: Explanations of functional type and the visual content are given in the subject note (5B14).
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