#201&c*

Single editions containing multiple works have always been a characteristic feature of Chinese publishing, and present cataloguing problems that are not answered adequately by most standard bibliographic formats (MARC21 and its antecedents, for example).

Wherever possible, and certainly for traditional congshu 叢書, record linking is used (see under field #0rx). But in cases where a book contains two or more different works by different authors, each of which is given equal prominence on the title page with no general, overall title, use the method described here. It permits up to 10 title / author groups, in which the fields #201-#209 are parallelled by #231-#239, #241-#249, #291-#299, #301-#309, and #311-#319, which are used in conjunction with them where necessary. In practice, anything more than 4 or 5 should be avoided (treat the first title as the general title and use the linked record method).

Japan MARC used to use this method, and permitted up to 9 groups; NACSIS deals with contained works in a different way.

Example

#200 弘明集 ^十四卷^|9hong ming ji
#201 廣弘明集 ^三十卷^|9guang hong ming ji
#290 (梁釋)僧祐撰
#291 (唐釋)道宣撰
#300 (梁釋)僧祐|9seng you
#301 (唐釋)道宣|9dao xuan

ISBD: 弘明集 十四卷 / (梁釋)僧祐撰. 廣弘明集 三十卷 / (唐釋)道宣撰

To date (7 January 2016) the highest number of title / author groups that have been dealt with by this method is eight, as in the following record:

#200 日本日記|9ri ben ri ji
#201 使東述略並雜詠|9shi dong shu lue bing za yong
#202 使東詩錄|9shi dong shi lu
#203 日本紀遊|9ri ben ji you
#204 遊歷日本圖經餘紀|9you li ri ben tu jing yi ji
#205 東遊日記|9dong you ri ji
#206 扶桑遊記|9fu sang you ji
#207 日本雜事詩(廣注)|9ri ben za shi shi guang zhu
#290 (清)羅森撰
#291 (清)何如璋撰
#292 (清)張斯桂撰
#293 (清)李筱圃撰
#294 (清)傅雲龍撰
#295 (清)黃慶澄撰
#296 (清)王韜撰
#297 (清)黃遵憲撰
#300 (清)羅森|9luo sen
#301 (清)何如璋|9he ru zhang
#302 (清)張斯桂|9zhang si gui
#303 (清)李筱圃|9li xiao pu
#304 (清)傅雲龍|9fu yun long
#305 (清)黃慶澄|9huang qing cheng
#306 (清)王韜|9wang tao
#307 (清)黃遵憲|9huang zun xian

ISBD: 日本日記 / (清)羅森撰. 使東述略並雜詠 / (清)何如璋撰. 使東詩錄 / (清)張斯桂撰. 日本紀遊 / (清)李筱圃撰. 遊歷日本圖經餘紀 / (清)傅雲龍撰. 東遊日記 / (清)黃慶澄撰. 扶桑遊記 / (清)王韜撰. 日本雜事詩(廣注) / (清)黃遵憲撰

Of the 171,248 titles currently in the database (7 January 2016), the use of this method is as follows: #201, 2109 (that is, records with no further title / author groups, as all records with #202 will also contain #201); #202, 325; #203, 58; #204, 11; #205, 7; #206, 1; #207, 1.