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Volume I Title Page Anomaly (original versus reprint):
It matters not if you have bound or loose reprints – you do not have a Title Page for Volume I.
This was a purposeful omission by the NGS when they did the 1964 reproduction of the first 18 volumes.
Why?
The Volume I Title Page was part of the combined Volume I & II Contents, Illustrations and Index listing that was published as Volume II, No. 5.
In the original, this issue begins with the Volume II Title Page followed by the combined Vol. I & II Contents and Illustrations as pages i through viii.
Then the text (announcements, rules, membership lists, etc.) follows on pages 287 through 334 immediately followed by the combined Volume I & II Index on pages 335 through 339. The Index is followed by 5 blank pages (2 ½ double sides) and then the Volume I Title Page and Officers listing as pages i through ii, followed by four blank pages (2 double sides).
As only the original of this issue existed (e.g. the 1922 reprint of Vol. I, Nos 2 & 4 was used for the 1964 reproduction) at the time of the 1964 reproduction, I can only assume the NGS did not bother to reproduce and collate the Volume I title page for the bound edition.
One can understand this for the bound volume from a logistical point of view (maybe), but why didn’t the NGS reproduce the Title Page in the individual 1964 reproduction of Volume II, No. 5 - no collation required?
This page had to be deliberately discarded in the 1964 reproduction of the individual reprints.
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