Good afternoon friends and colleagues.
Normally when recording the absence of plates I would treat this as a copy-specific issue and record the lack as an imperfection in the copy.
I am, however, cataloguing William Acton's /A practical treatise on diseases of the urinary & generative organs (in both sexes.) : Illustrated with woodcuts and coloured plates/. - London : John Churchill, 1860.
Despite the title being as transcribed, there are no plates: and, pasted in the front of the book, is a label reading ""May be had separately, price 10s. 6d. The eleven plates, of which eight are accurately coloured, illustrative of this work".
So, this particular copy was (presumably) never intended to have its plates with it: I have, accordingly, not recorded them in the 300 field, but have transcribed the label in a 500 note.
Is that what you would do? Some COPAC records give [11] plates, some don't mention plates, and at least one records [8] plates...
Grateful for any suggestions for a neater or better method of handling this.
Jane Wickenden
Institute of Naval Medicine
Historic Library
PS Given the subject, I must admit that it is a relief NOT to have the plates....
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