The adversaria of Google Books: captured mark of the hand and digitization as rephotography.Tumblr (3.0; @theartofgooglebooks)http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d24475a9c41780113dc156402099e103/tumblr_mmv0qmctvk1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Glitch.</p> <p>From the back matter of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=X3NRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA246#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Joan of Arc: or, The Maid of Orleans</em></a> by Jules Michelet and Orlando Williams Wight (1858). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include library artifacts from the Royal Library of Belgium).</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50535388819http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50535388819Wed, 15 May 2013 18:54:12 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksglitchendpapersused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4876a645b654cf1fedf5f16229307669/tumblr_mmv19xE1wh1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Numbers and scribbles.</p> <p>From the back matter of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gww8AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PT69#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Discorso sopra il Principio di Tutti i Canti d’Orlando Furioso</em></a> by Laura Terracina (1568). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized June 15, 2009.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50535384150http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50535384150Wed, 15 May 2013 18:54:08 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagewriting in booksnotesmarginaliaannotationnumbersscribbledcrossed outused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/366bc657b8d3837c4a7a4f738fefc74c/tumblr_mmtfq9ucRo1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Book clasps. </p> <p><span>From </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xnlFAAAAcAAJ&dq=finn&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Psalmi Finn</em></a><span> (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.</span></p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50535378835http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50535378835Wed, 15 May 2013 18:54:04 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintageclaspshardwaredigitization equipmentused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0b681bd82218a873a57f11562ec24de5/tumblr_mmv119ne7U1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/23914546153ee84fbd3a3add49b54da1/tumblr_mmv119ne7U1qixa76o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/055e3efbd26022ad31170994695e8499/tumblr_mmv119ne7U1qixa76o4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/277d0e6c92cb9e7fa86c201056cb33eb/tumblr_mmv119ne7U1qixa76o3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Endpapers, four different ways.</p> <p>From <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=aVvdmc0_WzEC&pg=PT3#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Los Tres Libros de Matheo Maria Boyardo</em></a> (1581). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized December 5, 2008. </p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50535374306http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50535374306Wed, 15 May 2013 18:54:00 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintageendpaperspaperused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/56f4d8f8415fe79896bbd6090dd2a991/tumblr_mmtfxfEIJj1qixa76o6_r1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0653e42609f384322690522225662970/tumblr_mmtfxfEIJj1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cfdfc8a81033a162b6ba3e070a3c5c48/tumblr_mmtfxfEIJj1qixa76o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c1b5d584909ec643bdeae104df00ee73/tumblr_mmtfxfEIJj1qixa76o4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d517aa01377761fd5bf7383c7dddb543/tumblr_mmtfxfEIJj1qixa76o5_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/57b9cf43dd78abbf609dc53259801b0b/tumblr_mmtfxfEIJj1qixa76o3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Fore-edge and employee’s (distorted) hand.</p> <p>From <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xnlFAAAAcAAJ&dq=finn&pg=PP19#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Psalmi Finn</em></a> (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50465503841http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50465503841Tue, 14 May 2013 20:57:55 -0500Google BooksdigitizationartlittechbooksGIFvintageemployeehandfingerscotsringdistortionmotionmovementfore-edgeuncroppedused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/440060bdebc59b94da828f21da77a622/tumblr_mmtd6oj7E61qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Tissue with foxing partially covers illustration.</p> <p>From p. 314 of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IEHBg74MS8IC&pg=PA314-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances</em></a> by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 14, 2005.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50465498519http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50465498519Tue, 14 May 2013 20:57:51 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagetissueobscuredfoxingillustrationstainedused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9bbf5e2c5968607fc0686a6173a8daff/tumblr_mmtdy65RmL1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Dog-ear.</p> <p>From p. 294 of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7bU4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA294#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em></a> by Mark Twain (1912). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 27, 2007.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50465487796http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50465487796Tue, 14 May 2013 20:57:43 -0500Google BooksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintageMark TwainHuckleberry Finndog-eareddog-earfoldedobscuredused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fc179c74139109f752eadcf088551e60/tumblr_mm73jyquph1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Redacted addition.</p> <p>From <em><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=EDRbAAAAQAAJ&dq=gogh&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">A Catalogue of the Genuine and Capital Collection of Pictures, by the Most Celebrated Masters, of that Late Great and Learned Physician, Doctor Richard Mead</a></em> (1754). Original from Oxford University. Digitized January 28, 2009.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50465493044http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50465493044Tue, 14 May 2013 20:57:00 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagemarginaliaannotationredactedcrossed outinkused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/adc4059edd14a86f94e9d7f2d579b57e/tumblr_mmqusr8rwb1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Pressed flower.</p> <p>From p. 89 of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=G5AXAAAAIAAJ&dq=year&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>The First Year of Greek</em></a> by James Turney Allen (1917). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358714784http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358714784Mon, 13 May 2013 14:26:58 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintageflowerpressed flowerused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/612e04d0e85c94d07d43db8d966bf9f7/tumblr_mmqv0v6HbG1qixa76o1_r1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Throughout <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=STUoAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT10#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1657</em></a> by S. B. (1657). Original from Indiana University. Digitized August 9, 2011.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358710579http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358710579Mon, 13 May 2013 14:26:54 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagehandwritingwriting in booksmarginaliamicrofilmused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/90a751074cd6281bc2602185d5c13f7b/tumblr_mmqw493QN01qixa76o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a44a917376c17ae7a02a764bc25b08f6/tumblr_mmqw493QN01qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Earthquake!</p> <p>Throughout <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=jYNbAAAAQAAJ&dq=year&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>A Genuine Account of Earthquakes, Especially that at Oxford, in the Year 1695; and of Another Terrible One at Port-Royal, in Jamaica, in the Year 1692</em></a> (1750). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 11, 2009.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358705111http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358705111Mon, 13 May 2013 14:26:49 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagemotionmovementemployeefingercrookeddistortionused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d4ed62511650729e96276de69c79ba23/tumblr_mmdx30Qnd81qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0612419ebfd7df6dcee5cec21ca3e86d/tumblr_mmdx30Qnd81qixa76o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Underlining and annotation in red crayon.</p> <p>Throughout <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=yL0NAAAAQAAJ&dq=coast&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>A History of Colonization on the Western Coast of Africa</em></a> by Archibald Alexander (1846). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 25, 2007.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358699383http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358699383Mon, 13 May 2013 14:26:45 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagemarginaliacrayonwriting in booksunderliningannotationused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/063833e033bff19a6953c2cc5bb0bf23/tumblr_mmqvcqxoc41qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Bar code over marbled paper.</p> <p>From the front matter of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HtQWAAAAQAAJ&dq=year&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>A Year on the Punjab Frontier</em></a>, v. 1, by Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1851). Original from the University of Lausanne. Digitized November 19, 2008.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358693525http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358693525Mon, 13 May 2013 14:26:39 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagemarbled paperbar codeephemerastickerused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/12485a796f0bf0b1894a5b62c4ade261/tumblr_mmqx7eWLil1qixa76o1_400.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/589b23af6eafb93b378c4f3a4bceae8c/tumblr_mmqx7eWLil1qixa76o2_400.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/282b2feadedda15b1bb2df300a2b6982/tumblr_mmqx7eWLil1qixa76o3_400.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1fb0e0f5300649b1cbd92469db8c3dce/tumblr_mmqx7eWLil1qixa76o4_400.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Copious notes.</p> <p>From the front matter of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NmpCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>A Voyage to Suratt</em></a> by John Ovington (1696). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized May 5, 2010.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358688351http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/50358688351Mon, 13 May 2013 14:26:35 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagenoteshandwritingfront mattermarginaliaannotationwriting in booksused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a509aae8fdafbad97c69c225c41c5437/tumblr_mmdwossC2I1qixa76o4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4163ae7e5e58bd3b908541f36fedc72e/tumblr_mmdwossC2I1qixa76o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c317ba7d03b90f3ed773f902c2ead737/tumblr_mmdwossC2I1qixa76o3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7ca88f5cfc32405485a588393549f09c/tumblr_mmdwossC2I1qixa76o5_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b2903df20ecaac282e6498fc18df7206/tumblr_mmdwossC2I1qixa76o6_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Impossible places and creatures (illustrations left folded).</p> <p>Throughout <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Y_URAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, in 1758</em></a> by Rev. John Lindsay (1759). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 28, 2007.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49781322628http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49781322628Mon, 06 May 2013 11:32:39 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintageillustrationsplatesfoldedobscuredmapscartographyscientific illustrationused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/feb20053d8c9760cd24d6bbd913a7a86/tumblr_mmdxchuCMi1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>“I question this.”</p> <p>From p. 185 of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Qf9EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA185#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee</em></a> by Thomas Edward Bowdich (1873). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 19, 2007.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49781319386http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49781319386Mon, 06 May 2013 11:32:35 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagemarginaliaannotationnotesasteriskwriting in booksused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2d28cffaf604256a74f6b403ab01cb63/tumblr_mmdw4o61iC1qixa76o2_400.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/654c31ee8b2962286036ab9a47fc2246/tumblr_mmdw4o61iC1qixa76o3_400.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2aec4869d45a12f18e0a1e39119cedad/tumblr_mmdw4o61iC1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Stains.</p> <p>Throughout <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XDlOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA28#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>A Survey of the National Debts, the Sinking Fund, the Civil List, and the Annual Supplies</em></a> (1745). Original from Princeton University. Digitized April 29, 2010.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49781312422http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49781312422Mon, 06 May 2013 11:32:27 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagestainedused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d5bae8ed8bc48b88d2d819a82ac41e7e/tumblr_mmcifj0lKb1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Frontispiece left folded.</p> <p>From <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ZztbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Chūshingura: or, The Loyal Retainers of Akao</em></a> by Izumo Takeda, Shōraku Miyoshi, and Senryū Namiki, translated by Jukichi Inouye (1894). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 2, 2009.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49723500262http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49723500262Sun, 05 May 2013 17:23:47 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagefoldedfrontispieceobscuredused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/710915030adf9b89960b23ac096aa061/tumblr_mmcgnuYrlD1qixa76o1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Torn paper poem.</p> <p>From the back matter of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4jEqAAAAYAAJ&dq=java&pg=PA445#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>A Princess of Java: A Tale of the Far East</em></a> by Sarah Jane Higginson (1887). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 25, 2008.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49723496013http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49723496013Sun, 05 May 2013 17:23:43 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksrippedtornpoetrypoemerasureused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4a4687c216b9c1ea2e5ed41a19eaf234/tumblr_mmch7qQ7qB1qixa76o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5c824d27522f6f69d7b8884762277a40/tumblr_mmch7qQ7qB1qixa76o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Digital gutter splits botantical illustrations.</p> <p>Throught <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NspLAAAAcAAJ&dq=java&pg=PA267#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Plantae Javanicae Rariores</em></a> by Thomas Horsfield, Johannes-Josephus Bennett, and Robert Brown (1852). Original from Austrian National Library. Digitized September 2, 2011.</p>http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49723491121http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/post/49723491121Sun, 05 May 2013 17:23:40 -0500Google Booksdigitizationartlittechbooksvintagescientific illustrationgutterplantsused booksold booksrare booksbook artbook artslibrarylibrariesphotographynew mediadigital art