Cataloger's Reference Shelf
Graphic Materials - Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical
Collections
19: Single Item with Opening Text that Provides a Title (Sample Descriptions in the 1982 Edition) (Reference Illustration 7)
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).
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