Skip to main contentAccessibility help Accessibility feedback Hispanic Heritage Month 2025 How to provide a collation for a 612 page book that is complete AI Mode All Images Videos Shopping Short videos Forums More Tools AI Overview To provide a complete bibliographical collation for a 612-page book, you must create a formula describing its physical structure. This formula details the arrangement of the book's gatherings (also called signatures), the number of leaves in each, and how the pages are numbered. The following is a generalized process for a modern book. Descriptive bibliography is a specialized field, and the formula and process for older, handmade books can be more complex. 1. Determine the book's format The book's format is the size and shape of the leaves, which is determined by how many times the large sheet of paper was folded during printing. A book printed on a modern press, like a 612-page novel, is most likely a quarto (4to) or octavo (8vo). You can find this out by: Inspecting the paper's chain lines: By holding a page up to the light, you can see faint parallel lines (called chain lines) in the paper. Their orientation (vertical or horizontal) helps determine the format. Examining the page folding: A book in octavo format is made by folding a large sheet of paper three times, creating a gathering of 8 leaves (16 pages). A quarto is folded twice, creating 4 leaves (8 pages). 2. Document the structure In modern printing, the gatherings are typically bound in sequence, and you can document the structure by counting the number of pages per gathering. Count the pages per gathering: Carefully examine the sewn gatherings to confirm that each contains the same number of leaves. For example, if the book is an octavo, you should find 16 pages per gathering. Identify the signature marks (if present): Look at the bottom of the first leaf of each gathering for a signature mark, which is a letter or number used by the printer to ensure the pages were assembled in the correct order. 3. Create the formula With the book's structure documented, you can build the formula. The formula begins with the format, followed by the signing statement, leaf count, and pagination. A typical collation formula for a book would be structured as: Format: signing statement; leaves; pagination Example: For a 612-page book that is a standard octavo (8vo), with preliminary pages and the main body, the formula might look like this: 8vo: [1–38]⁸ 39⁶; 310 leaves; pp. [i-viii] 1–612 To decipher the formula: 8vo: Indicates the format is an octavo, meaning each gathering has 8 leaves (16 pages). [1–38]⁸: Describes the main body. [1–38] means there are 38 gatherings in sequence. ⁸ means each of those gatherings contains 8 leaves (16 pages). 39⁶: Shows an ending gathering with 6 leaves (12 pages), likely used to accommodate the final pages. 310 leaves: This is the total number of leaves in the book (38 gatherings x 8 leaves) + (1 gathering x 6 leaves) = 310 leaves. pp. [i-viii] 1–612: This is the pagination statement. [i-viii] indicates 8 unnumbered pages of preliminary material (title page, table of contents, etc.). 1–612 indicates the main text of the book, which is consecutively numbered. 4. Verify completeness Once you've constructed the collation formula, you can use it to verify that the book is complete. Count the pages: Ensure the pagination on the formula matches the physical book, counting all pages, including unnumbered ones. Check the order: Follow the collation formula and the signature marks (if available) to confirm that all gatherings are in the correct sequence. 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