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Standardized Form/Genre Tracings (655 _7)
Note: Each term listed below must include subfield 2 ($2) indicating source of the term
Accordion fold format (Binding) $z Country/State $y Year [press coll. only]
Account books $Country $y Year
Annotations (Provenance) $y Century
Armorial bindings (Provenance) $y Century
Armorial bookplates (Provenance) $z Country/State $yCentury
Armorial stamps (Provenance) $y Year [of host item]
Artists’ books $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Auction catalogs $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Authentication (Publishing)
Authors’ autographs (Provenance) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Authors’ presentation inscriptions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century
Autographs (Provenance) $y Century
Ballads $z Country/State $y Century
Binders’ tickets (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century
Blind stamps (Provenance) $z Country $ y Century
Bookplates (Provenance) $y Century [for provenance, not WAC or CL]
Book prices (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Booksellers’ advertisements $z Country/State $z City $y Century
Booksellers’ catalogs $z Country/State $z City $y Century
Booksellers’ labels $z Country/State $y Century
Broadsides $z Country/State $y Century
Clippings $Century
Commonplace books $Country $Century
Diaries $Country $y Year
Double fore-edge painting (Binding) $z Country/State $yCentury
Embossed stamps (Provenance) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Ephemera
Epistolary novels $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Guidebooks $zCountry/State $y Year
Ink stamps (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century
Inscriptions (Provenance) $y Century
Insertions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Year [of host item]
Keepsakes $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Labels (Provenance) $z Country/State
Letters $z Country $y Century
Limitation statements (Publishing)
Markings (Provenance) $y Century
Miniature books $z Country/State $y Century
Monograms (Provenance)
Periodicals $y Century
Poems $z Country $y Century
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) $y Year
Printers’ devices (Printing) $z Country/State $y Century
Programs $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Prospectuses $z Country/State $y Century
Publishers’ catalogs $y Year
Second-hand prices (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Settle bindings (Binding) $y Year
Shelf marks (Provenance) $y Century
Slipcases (Binding)
Subscription lists (Publishing) $z Country $z City $y Year
Tax stamps (Publishing) $Country $y Year [of host item] $5 CLU-C [if applicable]
Travel literatures $z Country/State $z City $y Year [not Guidebooks]
Typefaces (Type evidence) $x [face name, or rarely, no subdiv.]
Type specimens $z Country/State $y Century
Utopian literature $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Wrappers (Binding) $z Country/State $y Century
Double fore-edge painting (Binding) $z Country/State $y Century
Settle bindings (Binding) $y Year
Slipcases (Binding)
Wrappers (Binding) $z Country/State $y Century
Provenance Evidence ($2 rbprov $5 CLU-C):
Annotations (Provenance) $y Century
Armorial bindings (Provenance) $y Century
Armorial bookplates (Provenance) $zCountry/State $yCentury
Armorial stamps (Provenance) $y Year [of host item]
Authors’ autographs (Provenance) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Authors’ presentation inscriptions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century
Bookplates (Provenance) $y Century [for provenance, not WAC or CL]
Ink stamps (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century
Inscriptions (Provenance) $z Century
Insertions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Year [of host item]
Labels (Provenance) $z Country/State
Markings (Provenance) $y Century
Monograms (Provenance)
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance) $z Country/State $y Century
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) $y Year
Shelf marks (Provenance) $y Century
Printing/Publishing Evidence($2rbpri / $2rbpub):
Authentication (Publishing)
Book prices (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Limitation statements (Publishing)
Printers’ devices (Printing) $z Country/State $y Century
Second-hand prices (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Subscription lists (Publishing) $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Tax stamps (Publishing) $Country $y Year [of host item] $5 CLU-C [if applicable]
? Include: “Printing Privileges” either Printing or Publishing Evidence.
Genre Terms ($2 rbgenr):
Account books $Country $y Year
Artists’ books $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Auction catalogs $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Ballads $z Country/State $y Century
Booksellers’ advertisements $z Country/State $z City $y Century
Booksellers’ catalogs $z Country/State $z City $y Century
Booksellers’ labels $z Country/State $y Century
Broadsides $z Country/State $y Century
Clippings $y Century
Commonplace Books $z Country/State $y Century
Diaries $Country $y Year
Ephemera
Epistolary novels $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Guidebooks $zCountry/State $y Year
Keepsakes $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Letters $z Country $y Century
Miniature books $z Country/State $y Century
Periodicals $y Century
Poems $z Country $y Century
Prospectuses $z Country/State $y Century
Publishers’ catalogs $y Year
Travel literature $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Type specimens $z Country/State $y Century
Utopian literature $z Country/State $z City $y Year
Type Evidence ($2 rbtyp):
Typefaces (Type evidence) $x [face name, or rarely, no subdiv.]