February 26, 2013
A book composed entirely of employee’s corrected fingers over blank pages.
A True Copy of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Greenshields (1709). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 27, 2009.

A book composed entirely of employee’s corrected fingers over blank pages.

A True Copy of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Greenshields (1709). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 27, 2009.

June 28, 2012

A book without a book.

Ostensibly, His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Letter to the Right Reverend the Lords Bishops of His Province, by William Wake (1716). Original from Oxford University Digitized Apr 27, 2009 

May 16, 2012
Never checked out.
From the back matter of The Challenge of Agriculture: The Story of the United Farmers of Ontario by Melville H. Staples (1921). Original from the University of California. Digitized July 27, 2010. 

Never checked out.

From the back matter of The Challenge of Agriculture: The Story of the United Farmers of Ontario by Melville H. Staples (1921). Original from the University of California. Digitized July 27, 2010. 

March 12, 2012
The edge of a page, in neon.
From p. ii of The Reliques of Father Prout, collected and arranged by Oliver Yorke and illustrated by Alfred Croquis(1836). Original from Indiana University. Digitized January 30, 2009.

The edge of a page, in neon.

From p. ii of The Reliques of Father Prout, collected and arranged by Oliver Yorke and illustrated by Alfred Croquis(1836). Original from Indiana University. Digitized January 30, 2009.

March 1, 2012
“This book should be returned on or before the date last stamped below,” plus no date stamped below equals a book that is never due.
From the back matter of The Student’s Textbook of Electricity by Henry Minchin Noad (1867).

“This book should be returned on or before the date last stamped below,” plus no date stamped below equals a book that is never due.

From the back matter of The Student’s Textbook of Electricity by Henry Minchin Noad (1867).

February 5, 2012
A book without text.
Lately Publish’d the Following Books: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West-end of St. Paul’s, London (1737). 

A book without text.

Lately Publish’d the Following Books: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West-end of St. Paul’s, London (1737). 

November 4, 2011
Unused space for travel memoranda.
From p. 98-110 of The Iron and Steel Interests of Chicago, by George W. Cope (1800). [Here]
In Chicago? Check out the forthcoming show FOLDED: Absurd Machines, Novel Topographies, Hybrid Creatures and Impossible Vistas, curated by Krissy Wilson of The Art of Google Books, at The Meadow, in Chicago, IL, between November 5th and 15th.

Unused space for travel memoranda.

From p. 98-110 of The Iron and Steel Interests of Chicago, by George W. Cope (1800). [Here]

In Chicago? Check out the forthcoming show FOLDED: Absurd Machines, Novel Topographies, Hybrid Creatures and Impossible Vistas, curated by Krissy Wilson of The Art of Google Books, at The Meadow, in Chicago, IL, between November 5th and 15th.

May 28, 2011
Unknown white obstruction
p.362-3 of Catalogue of 2156 Stars (1849). [Here]

Unknown white obstruction

p.362-3 of Catalogue of 2156 Stars (1849). [Here]