If either the record or the item include multiple publishers, as
long as one of the publishers is present in both the item and the record, you may
treat the record as a match. This applies whether the body appears in the 260 $b
field as a publisher or in the 260 $f field as a printer.
(Cf. Part II.B.1, on editing when additional publishers
are involved.)
- E.g. T.p.: Clarendon Press
- T.p. verso: Oxford University Press
- 260 $a Oxford ; $a New York : $b Oxford University Press ...
- This record may be a match.
Along the same lines, if a name appearing on the title page is identified as -- or is
known to be -- "an imprint of" another publisher, a record with either entity in the
260 field may be a match (cf. Part II.B.1,
example with imprint of another publisher). There is often some ambiguity whether
the name on the title page is a publisher or a series or quoted note.
- E.g. T.p.: Verso
- T.p. verso: Verso Books is an imprint of New Left Books.
- Either a record with Verso Books or one with New Left Books in the 260
field may be a match.
- E.g. T.p.: Modern Library
- T.p. verso: Random House
- Either a record with Modern Library or one with Random House in the 260
field may be a match.
Please note: It is important to be sure that other factors do not prevent a
match in cases of multiple publishers. There are instances in which the publisher of
one edition will actually appear in an item of a different edition; there should be
other clues that the editions are not the same.
One category of this situation is that of reprint editions in which the original
publisher appears prominently while the reprint publisher appears in an obscure
location and/or in small print.
- E.g. T.p.: London / Macmillan and Co. / 1884
- T.p. verso, in small letters: Republished in 1972 by Gregg International
Publishers Limited ...
- A record with Macmillan as publisher could not be used, as it would be the
record for the
- original edition, not this reprint edition.
A trickier category is represented by items not published by known reprint
publishers that contain prominent "ghosts" of information from a previous edition.
- E.g. T.p., at the bottom: Robert Laffont
- T.p. verso: cEditions Robert Laffont, S.A., Paris, 1991
- P. facing t.p.: [list of other works by the same author published by Presses
pocket]
- Colophon: Presses pocket ... Paris; Achevé d'imprimer [printed]
en décembre 1992
- Back cover: Egalement chez Presses pocket: ...
- There is a record online with 260 $a Paris : $b R. Laffont, $c c1991. The
pagination, series, size,
- and the publisher portion of the ISBN in that
record do not match the piece (there is a 6
- centimeter difference in size).
Therefore, even though all elements of the record's imprint are
- present somewhere in the piece, the record cannot be a match. The item should be
catalogued
- as a 1992 publication by Presses pocket.
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