The hands of an employee, captured while turning pages.

From p. 308-309 (?) of The Mysterious Island Dropped from the Clouds by Jules Verne, trans. W. H. G. Kingston (1875). 

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   Don’t know that this is art, but I do know that Google’s digitization “procedures” are ape-level nonsense.

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