April 1, 2013
Circulation stamps and redaction.
From the back matter of A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life by William Law (1906). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 13, 2006.

Circulation stamps and redaction.

From the back matter of A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life by William Law (1906). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 13, 2006.

November 19, 2012
Print made when endpaper pressed against wet circulation stamp ink.
From the back matter of The Water Cure in America: Over Three Hundred Cases of Various Diseases Treated with Water (1852). Original from Princeton University. Digitized January 27, 2009.

Print made when endpaper pressed against wet circulation stamp ink.

From the back matter of The Water Cure in America: Over Three Hundred Cases of Various Diseases Treated with Water (1852). Original from Princeton University. Digitized January 27, 2009.

November 15, 2012

Library statement contradicted by digitization and digital distribution.

From the back matter of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by A Square (Edwin A. Abbott, 1885). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 21, 2007.

September 27, 2012
Cancelled. 
From the back matter of The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll (1876). Original from Oxford University. Digitized August 8, 2007.

Cancelled. 

From the back matter of The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll (1876). Original from Oxford University. Digitized August 8, 2007.

May 9, 2012
Library statements contradicted by digitization and digital distribution.
From the back matter of Miscellanies: The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding (1743). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 23, 2007.

Library statements contradicted by digitization and digital distribution.

From the back matter of Miscellanies: The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding (1743). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 23, 2007.

March 19, 2012
Library statement contradicted by digitization and digital distribution. 
From the back matter of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, by J. H. Todd (1864). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 25, 2007.

Library statement contradicted by digitization and digital distribution. 

From the back matter of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, by J. H. Todd (1864). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 25, 2007.

March 13, 2012
A blush of red crayon, a little arithmetic, and a riot of library artifacts.
From the back matter of The Rainbow by David Herbert Lawrence (1922).Original from Indiana University. Digitized August 5, 2010.

A blush of red crayon, a little arithmetic, and a riot of library artifacts.

From the back matter of The Rainbow by David Herbert Lawrence (1922).Original from Indiana University. Digitized August 5, 2010.

January 24, 2012
Library statement contradicted by digitization and digital distribution.
From the back matter of The American Journal of Science and Arts, v. 14 (1828).

Library statement contradicted by digitization and digital distribution.

From the back matter of The American Journal of Science and Arts, v. 14 (1828).

January 4, 2012
Circulation slips.
From the back matter of A Thousand More Verses by Will Carleton (1912). 

Circulation slips.

From the back matter of A Thousand More Verses by Will Carleton (1912). 

January 3, 2012
Torn library statement.
From the back matter of The Art of Drawing in Perspective by James Ferguson (1778).

Torn library statement.

From the back matter of The Art of Drawing in Perspective by James Ferguson (1778).

December 30, 2011
Library statement contradicted by digitization and digital distribution (full color).
From the back matter of The Irish Historical Library by William Nicolson and Edward Lhuyd (1724). 

Library statement contradicted by digitization and digital distribution (full color).

From the back matter of The Irish Historical Library by William Nicolson and Edward Lhuyd (1724). 

December 12, 2011
Stamped library statement (“Non-circulating book”) contradicted by digitization and digital distribution.
From the back matter of Library of the World’s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, v. 45, ed. by C. D. Warner, et. al. (1897). [Here]

Stamped library statement (“Non-circulating book”) contradicted by digitization and digital distribution.

From the back matter of Library of the World’s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, v. 45, ed. by C. D. Warner, et. al. (1897). [Here]

December 2, 2011
Circulation stamps from 1893-1898.
From the front matter of Dr. Latimer: A Story of Casco Bay, by Clara Louise Burnham (1893). [Here]

Circulation stamps from 1893-1898.

From the front matter of Dr. Latimer: A Story of Casco Bay, by Clara Louise Burnham (1893). [Here]

August 22, 2011

New York Public Library and NYPL circulation department stamps on every blank page.

From various pages of the Economical Printing Company’s Specimens of Type (1896). [Here]

August 4, 2011
University of Oxford English Faculty Library bookplate, reading “This book is confined to the library”; statement contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital circulation.
From front matter of Evelina, or, the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney (1779). [Here]

University of Oxford English Faculty Library bookplate, reading “This book is confined to the library”; statement contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital circulation.

From front matter of Evelina, or, the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney (1779). [Here]