Hi,

I'm looking at works in archive.org, and I see that the catalogue records
for multi-volume works includes a separate record for each volume, typically
without a volume number.

E.g.
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL20752W/Works_containing_additional_letters_tracts_and_poems_not_hitherto_published

<http://openlibrary.org/works/OL20752W/Works_containing_additional_letters_tracts_and_poems_not_hitherto_published>where
it looks like there are multiple editions, when in fact they are (almost)
all separate volumes of the same edition.

There's nowhere in Edit that lets me add a volume number, which means that a
user would have to open each volume separately to find out which volume it
is.

Obviously, best practice would be to have all volumes listed as items under
a single title, but it doesn't look like OL is set up for that.

Next best would be to include the volume number in the title, to distinguish
them.

Thoughts?

Steve

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