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physical description


Describes the physical characteristics of an item. For books, includes such data as dimensions, number of pages and illustrations, and accompanying materials, if any.
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In library cataloging, the area of the bibliographic record (MARC field 300) in which the extent of an item is recorded. For books, extent of item includes the number of volumes, leaves or pages, colu [..]
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