using msDesc for rare books

Every now and then we hear tell of people using the TEI <msDesc> element 
to represent bibliographic information about things that are not 
strictly speaking manuscripts at all. I'm looking at a project which 
wants to encode very detailed information about specific copies of 
printed books (page layout, binding, ownership etc.) and I am wondering 
if there's a consensus out there about how to tweak <msDesc> for the 
purpose. Specifically, today I am wondering how people go about 
recording detailed notes about the printing of books, that is notes that 
say things like

"226 copies printed; 5 copies in-quarto, raisin on imperial Japan, with 
2 original engravings, numbered from I to V, plus an author's copy 
ex-series numbered 0; 20 copies in-quarto, raisin[1] on Hollande Van 
Helder, with 2 original engravings, numbered from VI to XXV; 200 copies 
in-octavo Jesus[1] on laid Alfa numbered from 1 to 200"

[This is my translation of the original, which reads "5 ex. in-quarto 
raisin sur Japon impérial avec deux gravures originales de Henri 
Laurens, numérotés de I à V ainsi qu'un ex. d'auteur hors série numéroté 
0 ; 20 ex. in-quarto raisin sur Hollande Van Gelder avec deux gravures 
originales de Henri Laurens, numérotés de VI à XXV ; 200 ex. in-octavo 
Jésus sur Alfa vergé numérotés de 1 à 200"]

I guess I could just wrap the whole thing in a <note type="copies"> but 
that seems a bit dull and doesn't capture the structure. Moreover, this 
is summary information about three (or possibly four) *groups* of 
copies, so it's not copy-specific in quite the same way as the physDesc 
of a msDesc would be.  Did someone say "frbr"?

[1] this is the name of the paper size, if you're wondering. Or so I 
learn from the internet "In olden times, a pattern or a letter drawn 
from the daily life of the paper makers and imprinted in the paper used 
to give it its name. People used to buy raisin paper (50 x 65cm) as it 
bore the imprint of a bunch of grapes, coquille paper (44 x 56cm), Jesus 
paper (56 x 76cm) with the imprint of Jesus' monogram – JHS –grand aigle 
paper (75 x 110cm), etc."