5C. Illustration
Contents:
5C5. Publications consisting entirely or chiefly of illustrations
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.
Optionally, disregard minor illustrations.
LC Rare Book Team Guidelines: Rarely exercise option.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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)
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.
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.
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.
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