Katie Sambrook wrote:
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> ** 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.
But what shall I call the tab I found this week, projecting from the
BOTTOM of a volume? (Handwritten with abbreviated form of author +
title; pasted to the bottom of a page in the middle of the book. In a
private library where the book has been since first acquisition in the
early 18th century.)
Apologies for further cross-posting.
Peter Hoare
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