A saucy bookplate: “A Pleader to the Needer When a Reader.”
From the back matter of England’s Path to Wealth and Honour, In a Dialogue Between an English-man and a Dutch-man by James Puckle (1718). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 4, 2006.
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.
Annotated bookplate.
From the front matter of The Following of the Star: A Romance by Florence Louisa Barclay (1911). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 18, 2008.
Endpaper illustrations obscured by library artifacts and digital contrast.
From Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field (1904). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 19, 2005.
Parody bookplate of Joe Laurie, Jr.: “Know Ye This Is Not A Present.”
From the front matter of The Funny Bone: Short Stories and Amusing Anecdotes for a Dull Hour, ed. by Henry Martyn Kieffer (1910). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 22, 2006.
Bookplate palimpsest.
From the back matter of All Aboard: or, Life On the Lake by Oliver Optic (1856). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 14, 2008.
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.
Pictorial endpapers in greyscale, high contrast, and color with clips and Harvard Library bookplate.
Detail of creepers:
From Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters by Isabel Anderson (1922). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 5, 2009.
Negated Avery Architectural Library bookplate.
From the front matter of The Art Institute of Chicago: Circular of Instruction of the School of Drawing, Painting, Modelling, Decorative Designing, and Architecture (1902). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized March 5, 2009.
Employee’s hand, distorted.
From the front matter of The Accomplished Tutor: or, Complete System of Liberal Education by Thomas Hodson (1805). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 10, 2005.
Bookplate of Hamilton Grammar School (Directions—“To be returned to the Teacher at the close of each term”—unfollowed).
From the front matter of A Hand-Book to Accompany the Eclectic System of Penmanship by Langdon Shook Thompson (1870). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 26, 2008.
Illustrated endpapers in color and greyscale, with bookplate of Silas Wright Dunning.
From The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1922). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 29, 2009.
Rhyming bookplate.
From the front matter of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years Alone in an Uninhabited Island, on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque by Daniel Defoe (1813). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 30, 2009.
A bookplate: “You are requested not to turn down the leaves.” Employee turns pages (gently?).
From the back matter of In Bad Company: And Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood (1901). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 9, 2005.
Bookplate placed over illustration.
From the front matter of Astronomia Accurata: or, The Royal Astronomer and Navigator by Robert Heath (1760). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 25, 2007.
