I currently handle distinctive serials titles in pre-1900 records with a
monograph record for the distinctive title and a serial record (or
records) for the entire serial, linking them with 773 and 774 fields.

Cordially,
SJ Wolfe

S.J. Wolfe
Senior Cataloguer and Serials Specialist
American Antiquarian Society
and
Chief Librarian, Republic of Boon Island
mailto:swolfe@mwa.org
http://home.earthlink.net/~perseshen