April 22, 2013

Linked marginalia.

From the table of contents of Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert William Service (1916). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized August 24, 2007.

April 15, 2013
Links invade the title page. 
From A Compendium of Practical Music in Five Parts: Teaching, by a New and Easie Method, 1. The Rudiments of Song. 2. The Principles of Composition. 3. The Use of Discords. 4. The Form of Figurate Descant. 5. The Contrivance of Canon, v. 1, by Christopher Simpson (1667). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized July 1, 2010.

Links invade the title page. 

From A Compendium of Practical Music in Five Parts: Teaching, by a New and Easie Method, 1. The Rudiments of Song. 2. The Principles of Composition. 3. The Use of Discords. 4. The Form of Figurate Descant. 5. The Contrivance of Canon, v. 1, by Christopher Simpson (1667). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized July 1, 2010.

February 26, 2013
Reader’s marginalia adopted by links.
From the contents of Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas by Remy de Gourmont (1921). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 27, 2008.

Reader’s marginalia adopted by links.

From the contents of Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas by Remy de Gourmont (1921). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 27, 2008.

October 9, 2012

Illustrations composed of and trapped by linked table of contents.

From My Book House, v. 1, ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (1920). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

September 5, 2012

Selectively indexed.

From Galeeren in Engelland mit 34 Galleotten by Johann Andreas Graf (1700). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized May 3, 2010.

July 24, 2012

Water-damage-and-autolink vistas. 

From the front matter of Cobb’s Juvenile Reader by Lyman Cobb (1839). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized September 21, 2006.

June 25, 2012

Intermittent autolinking on the title page, verso, and table of contents.

From A Defence [sic.] of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England by William Wake (1686). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized February 6, 2012.

April 19, 2012

A reader comments on the transition of the text to film.

From the table of contents to Kid Scanlan by Harry Charles Witwer (1920). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 14, 2008.

February 17, 2012
Dirt, foxing, and stray marks turned into links.
From p. 187 of Des Vollständigen Thaler-Cabinets by David Samuel von Madai (1769). 

Dirt, foxing, and stray marks turned into links.

From p. 187 of Des Vollständigen Thaler-Cabinets by David Samuel von Madai (1769). 

February 7, 2012
Links through tape.
From the index to Surgical Applied Anatomy by Sir Frederick Treves (1785). 

Links through tape.

From the index to Surgical Applied Anatomy by Sir Frederick Treves (1785). 

December 31, 2011
Marked-up table of contents with autolinks and arithmetic. 
From The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton Jesse Hendrick (1920). 

Marked-up table of contents with autolinks and arithmetic. 

From The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton Jesse Hendrick (1920). 

December 27, 2011
Autolinks in decoration, title, and volume number.
From the title page of Phoenix: An Eton Magazine, no. 1 (1874). 

Autolinks in decoration, title, and volume number.

From the title page of Phoenix: An Eton Magazine, no. 1 (1874). 

October 17, 2011
Scrap of torn text; autolinks made from stains.
From the table of contents of The Western Farmer and Gardener, by Edward James Hooper (1848). [Here]

Scrap of torn text; autolinks made from stains.

From the table of contents of The Western Farmer and Gardener, by Edward James Hooper (1848). [Here]