PR4399?

[Katherine Marschall]

Dear Collective Wisdom,

Due to financial issues, I am without a subscription to ClassWeb, and I am
curious about the call number in the description of The Poet and the
Vampyre : the curse of Byron and the birth of literature's greatest
monsters / by Andrew McConnell Stott. (Originally published as: Vampyre
Family).
The OCLC record for the Pegasus edition (OCLC#870098419) has a 050,
indicators 14, of PR4399.B29 Z92 2014.

Is this a legitamate number and what does it stand for?

Of course, this isn't in my 1993 Gale's Super LCCS, but there I find a
perfectly good number for Byron, relations to contemporaries: PR4383. Byron
has a range of 48 numbers, PR4350-4398, built using table XXXI; which is
what made me wonder about the PR4399 number- which is outside of the
traditional George Gordon Byron, aka Lord Byron, range and directly before
the (single) number for Henry James Byron.

The earlier edition, titles Vampyre Family, is the only book in LC's
collection with that number.

Kitty Marschall

Bibliographic Organizer of Outstanding Knowledge
With Online Resource Management

Cushwa-Leighton Library
Saint Mary's College

284-4438

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[Michael Borries]

PR4399.B29 is not in ClassWeb. It seems to be some kind of mistake. PR4383 is probably the better choice.

Michael S. Borries
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Dear Collective Wisdom,

Due to financial issues, I am without a subscription to ClassWeb, and I am curious about the call number in the description of The Poet and the Vampyre : the curse of Byron and the birth of literature's greatest monsters / by Andrew McConnell Stott. (Originally published as: Vampyre Family).
The OCLC record for the Pegasus edition (OCLC#870098419) has a 050, indicators 14, of PR4399.B29 Z92 2014.

Is this a legitamate number and what does it stand for?

Of course, this isn't in my 1993 Gale's Super LCCS, but there I find a perfectly good number for Byron, relations to contemporaries: PR4383. Byron has a range of 48 numbers, PR4350-4398, built using table XXXI; which is what made me wonder about the PR4399 number- which is outside of the traditional George Gordon Byron, aka Lord Byron, range and directly before the (single) number for Henry James Byron.

The earlier edition, titles Vampyre Family, is the only book in LC's collection with that number.

Kitty Marschall

Bibliographic Organizer of Outstanding Knowledge With Online Resource Management

Cushwa-Leighton Library
Saint Mary's College

284-4438

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[J. McRee Elrod]

Post by Katherine Marschall
PR4399.B29 Z92 2014

This number occurs once in the LC shelf list for the 2013 edition, but
the old catalogue connection is not available, and the MARC tag button
on the new does not work, so I can't see whether this is a copy cat
record for no; I suspect it is.

PR = English and American literature
4399 Part of English literature 19th century
.B3 = Byron, Henry James (why B29 I've no idea; all others are B3 in the
LC shelf list)
Z92 From Table P-PZ40 Z5-Z999 = Biography and criticism general works

Since this is by "Stott" we would probably use Z8; we only use "2" at the
end of a Cutter when appended to the last Cutter of a work being
criticised.

You could use PR4399.B3 Z8 2014 I suppose.

We would use PR468.V35$bS86 2014 = Vampires in literature English 19th
century.

I suspect someone took the number you quote from the LC catalogue, and
to agree with the 600 subject heading, which would be the first
subjent if sored by tag number. But I think this would be of more
interest to patrons looking for material on Vampires than for material
on Byron. The first question to ask in classifying, I think, is who
will want this?

This answer is bsed on the print schedules, not ClassWeb.


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[Katherine Marschall]

Many thanks and kudos for the prompt responses!

You confirmed my suspicions, so I classed this with PR 4383.

Mark- thank you for the resource- I now have it booked marked.

Mac- with book in hand, I would say that it is not about Polidori's
vampyre, but truly is about Bryon and the people around him after he got
divorced and left England. (I suspect that the author was not terrible fond
of the good Lord Byron, the implication is that he and Shelly are the real
monsters)

Autocaters are the best!

Kitty Marschall

Bibliographic Organizer of Outstanding Knowledge
With Online Resource Management

Cushwa-Leighton Library
Saint Mary's College

284-4438

Post by J. McRee Elrod

Post by Katherine Marschall
PR4399.B29 Z92 2014

This number occurs once in the LC shelf list for the 2013 edition, but
the old catalogue connection is not available, and the MARC tag button
on the new does not work, so I can't see whether this is a copy cat
record for no; I suspect it is.
PR = English and American literature
4399 Part of English literature 19th century
.B3 = Byron, Henry James (why B29 I've no idea; all others are B3 in the
LC shelf list)
Z92 From Table P-PZ40 Z5-Z999 = Biography and criticism general works
Since this is by "Stott" we would probably use Z8; we only use "2" at the
end of a Cutter when appended to the last Cutter of a work being
criticised.
You could use PR4399.B3 Z8 2014 I suppose.
We would use PR468.V35$bS86 2014 = Vampires in literature English 19th
century.
I suspect someone took the number you quote from the LC catalogue, and
to agree with the 600 subject heading, which would be the first
subjent if sored by tag number. But I think this would be of more
interest to patrons looking for material on Vampires than for material
on Byron. The first question to ask in classifying, I think, is who
will want this?
This answer is bsed on the print schedules, not ClassWeb.
{__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/
___} |__ \__________________________________________________________

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