Re: Description of Horblit's BCC

[David Klappholz <d.klappholz@worldnet.att.net>]

> Simple multiplication? That depends on the book!
I find that statements like "sounds like simple multiplication" often 
elicit far more complete responses than "what does it really do?"

Thank you very much for your very informative description.

Regards
Dave

> I would have been very grateful for one of these when
> I encountered e.g. the 1662 ed. of History of the
> worthies of England. The signature statement became a
> paragraph (demonstrating a very creative use of the
> alphabet), and the pagination on the piece bore no
> resemblance to reality. I was barely coherent at the
> end of the day, if at all. 
> Eileen Smith
> eileen_smith@brown.edu
> Rare Book Cataloguer
> John Carter Brown Library
> Box 1894 Brown University
> Providence RI 02912
>
>
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