Sheriff’s sale of real estate : by virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will be sold at public sale, on ... February fourth, 1880 ... -- Doylestown, Penn’a : Sheriff’s Office, 1880 ( Bucks County Intelligencer Steam-Power Job Print)

1 print : woodcut, with text in letterpress ; sheet 59 x 47 cm.

Subject: Advertisement for public auction of John H. Kephart’s lot, two-story frame house, and barn. Illustration of house and barn.

Purchase, 1979.

Sheriff’s sale of real estate:  Opening text provides title, which is the main entry (1B1.5).

on ...:  Other title information is abridged (1F2).

1880 ...:  Since the mark of omission precedes a period (the prescribed punctuation at the beginning of the publication, distribution, etc., area), the period is omitted (0C7).

Doylestown, Penn’a:  Larger jurisdiction is given as it appears on the item (2C1).

Bucks County Intelligencer Steam-Power Job Print:   Sponsor-advertiser is used as the publisher (2B3).

woodcut, with text in letterpress:  The means by which the text was produced is described in other physical details (3Cc).

59 x 47 cm.:  The cataloging agency has chosen to measure only the sheet and indicates this (3D3.1).

Advertisement:  The functional type of the material is given, as well as a description of the illustration (5B14).

See also:

Sample Descriptions in the 1982 Edition

Examples