5C. Illustration

Contents:

5C1. General rule

5C1.1.

To indicate the presence of illustration, use the abbreviation "ill." after the statement of extent.

8 v. : ill.

492 p. : ill.

246 p., 32 p. of plates : ill.

5C1.2.

Optionally, disregard minor illustrations.

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines: Rarely exercise option.

5C1.3.

Do not regard ornaments (e.g., head-pieces, vignettes, tail-pieces, printers’ devices), pictorial covers, or pictorial dust jackets as illustrations. If considered important, these may be mentioned in a note (see 7B10).

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines: Cataloger's judgement.

5C1.4.

Optionally, treat significant title-page illustrations as illustrations rather than ornaments. Make a note to indicate any title-page illustration so treated, if considered important (see 7B10).

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines: Cataloger's judgement.

5C1.5.

Optionally, add the graphic process or technique in parentheses, preferably using a term found in a standard vocabulary (FN5-1). Give more detailed descriptions of the illustrations in a note, if considered important.

: ill. (woodcuts)

: ill. (steel engravings)

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines: Cataloger's judgement.

5C2. Types of illustrations

5C2.1.

Optionally, specify particular types of illustrations. Use in alphabetical order one or more such terms as the following: coats of arms, diagrams, facsims., forms, geneal. tables, maps, music, plans, ports. (use for single or group portraits), samples.

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines: Usually exercise option.

5C2.2.

Replace "ill." with terms specifying particular types of illustrations if the particular types are the only illustrations in the publication.

: maps

: ports. (Woodburytypes)

5C2.3.

Precede terms specifying particular types of illustrations with "ill." if the particular types are not the only illustrations in the publication.

: ill., maps, plans

: ill. (wood engravings), maps (lithographs)

5C3. Color illustrations

5C3.1.

Describe color illustrations as such using the abbreviation "col." Treat illustrations printed with a tint block (e.g., chiaroscuro woodcuts, tinted lithographs) as color illustrations.

: col. ill.

: ill., col. maps, ports. (some col.)

: ill. (some col.), maps, plans

: col. ill. (Baxter prints)

5C3.2.

Do not describe hand-colored illustrations as "col." unless there is evidence that the publication was issued with the hand coloring. In case of doubt, consider any machine-press publication with hand coloring to have been issued that way by the publisher. Always mention publisher-issued hand coloring in a note (see 7B10.3); make a local note on the presence of other hand coloring, if considered important (see 7B19.1.3).

: col. ill.

Note: With hand-colored wood engravings

(Comment: Title contains statement "with colored engravings.")

: col. ill. (lithographs)

Note: Lithographs are hand colored, as issued; see Sitwell, S. Fine bird books, p. 78

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines: Cataloger's judgement.

5C3.3.

If both the text and illustrations are printed in a single color, do not describe the illustrations as "col." Make a note to indicate the color of the ink, if considered important.

: ill.

Optional note: Printed in green throughout

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines: Cataloger's judgement.

5C4. Number of illustrations

Record the number of illustrations when their number can be ascertained readily (e.g., when the illustrations are listed and their numbers stated).

: 94 ill.

: ill., 8 facsims.

: 3 ill., 1 map

: 6 col. ill. (tinted lithographs)

: 2 maps (lithographs), 1 port. (mezzotint)

: 1 ill. (engraving)

Note: Illustration is a t.p. vignette depicting a woman with raised sword and torch, with two serpents rising out of an inferno in the background

5C5. Publications consisting entirely or chiefly of illustrations

If a publication consists entirely or chiefly of illustrations, account for this fact by specifying "all ill." or "chiefly ill." Optionally, when the illustrations are all or chiefly of a particular type (see 5C2.2), replace "ill." with the term specifying the particular type.

: all ill.

: chiefly maps

LC Rare Book Team Guidelines: Usually exercise option.