Torn library artifact.
From the front matter of Popular Romances of the West of England: or, The Drolls, Traditions and Superstitions of Old Cornwall, v. 2, by Robert Hunt (1865). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 21, 2005.
March 23, 2013
December 13, 2012
Fogg Museum ephemera (with doodle) used as bookmark.
From p. 465 of The Principles of Money and Banking, v. 2, by Charles Arthur Conant (1905). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 7, 2005.
December 13, 2012
Circulation slip with stamps indicating checkout between 1938 and 2000.
From the back matter of A Moral Alphabet by Hilaire Belloc (1899). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 8, 2006.
October 10, 2012
Disregard the donor of this book.
From the front matter of Much Adoe About Nothing by William Shakespeare (1899). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 28, 2007.
June 27, 2012
Harvard University inadvertently thanks Google when a circulation slip statement is photographed: “Thank you for helping us to preserve our collection!”
From the back matter of The Brain and Its Physiology: A Critical Disquisition on the Methods of Determining the Relations Subsisting Between the Structure and Functions of the Encephalon by Daniel Nobel (1846). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 9, 2008.
June 1, 2012
Distorted Harvard College Library bookplate.
From the front matter of The Missing Pocket-Book: or, Tom Mason’s Luck by Harry Castlemon (1895). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 13, 2008.
February 18, 2012
“Interesting book plate from the Harvard College Library. From p.ii of The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (1863).” Submitted by alexandradit.
December 25, 2011
Bookplate reads “Not to be loaned on any condition,” a statement contradicted by the transfer of ownership to Harvard (Gray Herbarium), rebinding, digitization, and digital distribution.
From the front matter of A System of Vegetables, v.1, by Carl von Linné and Johan Elmgre* (1783).
*Metadata provided by Google Books.
December 22, 2011
Typo in Harvard College Library bookplate: “bequset” instead of “bequest.”
From the front matter of Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne (1910).
October 1, 2011
![Library artifacts, including checkout slip, stamps, and barcode; endpaper broken, crash exposed.
From back matter of Rimini: and Other Poems, by Leigh Hunt (1844). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsbe9bTcsg1qixa76o1_400.png)
Library artifacts, including checkout slip, stamps, and barcode; endpaper broken, crash exposed.
From back matter of Rimini: and Other Poems, by Leigh Hunt (1844). [Here]
September 28, 2011
![Bookplate of the A. D. Club, a final club at Harvard (along with a cryptic note reading “Bacon closet”).
From the front matter of Rowing and Sculling by Walter Bradford Woodgate (1890). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls7ovzH58f1qixa76o1_400.png)
Bookplate of the A. D. Club, a final club at Harvard (along with a cryptic note reading “Bacon closet”).
From the front matter of Rowing and Sculling by Walter Bradford Woodgate (1890). [Here]
July 30, 2011
![Harvard College Library donation bookplate left without a name.
From front matter of Our Roll of Honor, or, Poems of the Revolution by Julia Clinton Jones (1894). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp0ukoZojw1qixa76o1_400.png)
Harvard College Library donation bookplate left without a name.
From front matter of Our Roll of Honor, or, Poems of the Revolution by Julia Clinton Jones (1894). [Here]
July 22, 2011
![Dueling bookplates; Harvard purchase plate placed over a paint advertisement, MIT deposit plate placed on top of that, and eventually crossed out (eventually held by Harvard)
From front matter of Metallic Structures: corrosion and fouling and their prevention by John Newman (1896). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loor390HAw1qixa76o1_400.png)
Dueling bookplates; Harvard purchase plate placed over a paint advertisement, MIT deposit plate placed on top of that, and eventually crossed out (eventually held by Harvard)
From front matter of Metallic Structures: corrosion and fouling and their prevention by John Newman (1896). [Here]
July 19, 2011
![Harvard library purchase bookplate with penciled ‘X’
From front matter of Cottage Economy by William Cobbett (1823). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lok1yoeCLB1qixa76o1_400.png)
Harvard library purchase bookplate with penciled ‘X’
From front matter of Cottage Economy by William Cobbett (1823). [Here]
![Colorful (and plentiful) Harvard library artifacts
From back matter of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1833). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmjr1b8F8K1qixa76o1_400.png)
