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Finding edition among kajillions; Setting up illustrator for new edition
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Illustrators of fully illustrated books are added as an additional 'author', same for volume editors and other non-authors who have 'responsibility'. No separate field, partly I suspect to discourage the addition of non-collating Editors and Cover Illustrators. When adding an illustrator to books like WitW, it's helpful to also add "Illustrator" into the Role box :)Easiest way I've found to find a specific edition if I know the pub date is to sort the Editions by date of publication, and then trawl on.
Discussion of illustrator goes in description field, but without any links or similar.
I should add that my "Wind in the Willows" has the following id numbers: H-1.72 [C]; SBN 684-71788-3 SL; SBN 684-128195 RB.The illustrator is Ernest H. Shepard (who also wrote the introduction).
Thank you.
For Old SBNs (i.e. pre-ISBN), it can be worth searching the SBN with a leading 0 added in front, so 0684717883 to make a 10 digit ISBN. This is only good for some edition, and also only any good here if it's already been added of course :) Will check in a minute to see if it's there for you.
One of those SBNs is here:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
the other is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...
Emy wrote: "Illustrators of fully illustrated books are added as an additional 'author', same for volume editors and other non-authors who have 'responsibility'. No separate field, partly I suspect to discoura..."Thanks, Emy.
Banjomike wrote: "One of those SBNs is here:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
the other is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58..."
Thank you, Banjomike.
Also, when I attempted to add my edition, I saw no fields for (or discussion of) the edition's illustrator. Thank you.