** WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING **
Many thanks to all who responded to my query about fore-edge
tabs on seventeenth century books.
It would appear that there is no specific bibliographical term
for this feature - everyone very sensibly uses "fore-edge tab"
as the closest description.
I was interested to learn that many institutional libraries were
still habitually shelving their collections fore-edge outwards
in the seventeenth century and that, in the case of many Oxford
and Cambridge college libraries, this practice continued
well into the eighteenth century. In particular, I was
interested to find that fore-edge outwards shelving of
collections might be maintained even when a library was no
longer chained.
Katie Sambrook
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Katie Sambrook
Special Collections Librarian
King's College London
Tel. 020 7431 8778 / 020 7435 5110
Fax 020 7431 8778
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