Contents:

1D1.  Order and source of other title information

1D2.  Other title information beginning with prepositions, conjunctions, etc.

1D3.  Statements about illustrations or volumes

1D4.  Abridgment of other title information

1D5.  Other title information with grammatically inseparable elements

1D6.  Parallel statements containing other title information

1D1.  Order and source of other title information

Transcribe other title information appearing on the title page in the order indicated by the sequence on, or layout of, the title page.  Transcribe other title information not appearing on the title page in a note, if considered important.

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines:  Cataloger's judgement.

1D2.  Other title information beginning with prepositions, conjunctions, etc.

1D2.1.  General rule

Transcribe title information that appears following the title proper as other title information, even if it begins with a preposition, conjunction, prepositional phrase, etc.

The English Parliament represented in a vision : with an after-thought upon the speech delivered to His Most Christian Majesty by the deputies of the states of Britany on the 29th day of February last ... : to which is added at large the memorable representation of the House of Commons to the Queen in the year 1711/12 ...

1D2.2.

If this other title information appears following the statement of responsibility, transcribe it as a subsequent statement of responsibility (see 1E14.2).

1D2.3.

If this other title information, or some portion of it, constitutes a formal statement of the contents of the work, and is grammatically separable from the title proper and other title information, transcribe it in a note, if considered important (see 7B16.2).  When these formal statements are omitted from the title and statement of responsibility area, use the mark of omission.

The spinning wheel's garland : containing several excellent new songs ...

Optional note:  Contents: (from t.p.) I. The good housewife's coat of arms -- II. The spinning wheels glory -- III. The taylor disappointed of his bride -- IV. The changeable world

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines:  Cataloger's judgement.

1D2.4.

Distinguish the above situations from those in which titles of other works are given equal prominence with the first-named work (see 1F1).

1D3.  Statements about illustrations or volumes

Treat an illustration statement or a statement such as "in two volumes" as other title information, unless the statement is grammatically inseparable from information transcribed as part of another element or area (see 1E13 and 2B8).  If the statement appears following the statement of responsibility, transcribe it as a subsequent statement of responsibility.

The American child's pictorial history of the United States : illustrated by sixty engravings

General index to fifty-six volumes of the Gentleman's magazine : from its commencement in the year 1731 to the end of 1786 / compiled by Samuel Ayscough, clerk, assistant librarian of the British Museum ; in two volumes

1D4.  Abridgment of other title information

Optionally, if other title information is very lengthy and can be abridged without loss of essential information, omit less important words or phrases, using the mark of omission.  If considered important, transcribe omitted words or phrases in a note (including the other titles or phrases referred to in 1D2.3).

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines:  Cataloger's judgement.

1D5.  Other title information with grammatically inseparable elements

If the other title information includes a statement of responsibility or an element belonging to another area, and the element is a grammatically inseparable part of the other title information according to one or more of the conditions enumerated in 1B1.1, transcribe it as other title information.

Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis Anglicane : cu[m] subtilissima interpretatione d[omi]ni Johannis de Athon

(Comment:  Statement of responsibility transcribed as part of other title information because of genitive case ending.)

1D6.  Parallel statements containing other title information

Transcribe parallel statements containing other title information in the order in which they appear on the title page.

See also:

1.  Title and Statement of Responsibility Area