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I would like to create a citation for an individual appearing on the book page at:
https://books.google.com/books?id=F01KAAAAMAAJ&q=kezia#v=onepage&q=keziah&f=false
If one clicks on the title page at the left of the screen, one sees that this book is a creation of Higginson Genealogical Books. That company, as I understand it, photocopies book pages and binds those pages together, apparently only making one change of adding their information to the title page.
I am looking at EE 12.78 and 12.79, but I'm not sure what they are saying. The use of the words "facsimile reproductions," "image copy," and "image reprint" seem to apply here. However, I am reading in an element of a publication, e.g., the example reference note for the image reprint of The Gazetteer of Scotland has a date of publication of 2002, but this creation by Higginson, in my mind, is not a publication. The book that I wish to cite has no year on the title page to show when Higginson produced it and I've never seen any Higginson Genealogical Books creation with a year. My understanding is that if I were to order from Higginson a copy of a particular book this year and then order a copy of the same book next year, the two books that I would get from them would be identical (no 2016 on the first one and no 2017 on the other).
If this wasn't a reprint, my reference note would simply have been:
Gilbert Cope, Genealogy of the Dutton Family of Pennsylvania, Preceded by a History of the Family in England from the Time of William the Conqueror to the Year 1669; With an Appendix Containing a Short Account of the Duttons of Conn. (West Chester, Pennsylvania: F. S. Hickman, Printer, 1871), 112, entry for Matthew Dutton Merriam; imaged book, Google books (https://books.google.com : accessed 2 April 2016).
I'm not sure how important it is to mention Higginson Genealogical Books. If there's no need to do so, then the above citation appears adequate. If I need to mention Higginson, how would I do so?
(One minor secondary question. The appendix in this book does not start on a new page, i.e., there is no Appendix, page 1, etc. The appendix starts on page 105 of the book. Would using "112 (Appendix)" instead of "112" in the reference note add anything useful, would it be confusing, or would it simply be a personal preference?)
Thank you.
Dennis
Dennis, my apologies for not
Dennis, my apologies for not responding promptly. I'm battling a hard-drive failure on my main workhorse, while deadlines loom for projects that can only be done on that machine's setup. I'll try to answer you in the morning.
Dennis,
Dennis,
Your puzzlement in this case center upon the fact that the bottom portion of the title page (shown in the image below) carries two items that might be interpreted as publication data. It also carries a third item that is clearly the "ownership stamp" of the library that allowed Google to image the book.
The first item in this image is the actual publication data. It is in the same type as the title of the book and the name of its author. It's also in standard format for publication data: Place of publication: Publisher, Year. The second item (Higginson) is not in the same type and not in standard format for publication data. This should be the ownership stamp of the bookshop/used-book dealer that acquired this particular copy of the book and resold it.
The issue is complicated by the fact that Higginson has functioned as a publisher also. But if Higginson had reissued this book, in the role of a publisher, there should be information to that effect—either on the title page or the backside of the title page where copyright and reprint information typically appear. You'll also note that Higginson's identification is offcenter and it's missing parts of its letters. Both points strongly suggest that Higginson's information is a stamp, not a typeset addition to a reprinting. I've also doublechecked at WorldCat—which does report cataloging data for multiple editions and publishers, but no Higginson edition or reprint.
EE3, at p. 661, has a QuickCheck Model for citing a Google image edition of an earlier book.