Fore-edge and employee’s (distorted) hand.
From Psalmi Finn (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.
Fore-edge and employee’s (distorted) hand.
From Psalmi Finn (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.
Earthquake!
Throughout A Genuine Account of Earthquakes, Especially that at Oxford, in the Year 1695; and of Another Terrible One at Port-Royal, in Jamaica, in the Year 1692 (1750). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 11, 2009.
Severe distortion: “a remarkable collection of (what can only be described as) hallucinogenic architectural views and plans.” Pointed out by asfaltics here.
Throughout The Builder, v. 77 (1899). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized February 26, 2011.
Distortion of employee’s finger and ring.
From the back matter of Libanii Sophistae Graeci (1522). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized August 24, 2012.
Wait, what?
Throughout The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments (1704). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 3, 2009.
Motion, distortion, correction, hand of employee.
From p. 306-308 (?) of British Education: or, The Source of the Disorders of Great Britain by Thomas Sheridan (1756). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized April 26, 2006.
Neon; uncropped; distortion.
Throughout A Charitable Proposal for Relieving the Sick and Needy, and Other Distressed Persons (1720). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 24, 2009.
Distortion.
From p. 57 of Compendium Privilegiorum Fratrum Minorum by Alonso de Casarubios (1532). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 22, 2008.
Distortion. Submitted by asfaltics: “Recto pages awry. Delightful chapter, as odd as its scan, concluding “We have rode on Buffalo Bill, Grant, Abraham, Mahomet and Solomon.”
Throughout Rambles of a Southerner in Three Continents by P. L. Groome (1889). Original from Princeton University. Digitized April 7, 2009.
An employee’s fingers, a transformative gutter, and color samples.
From p. 16 of Index of Colours and Mixed Tints by Theodore Henry A. Fielding (1830). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 31, 2006.
Distortion relevant to text.
From My Little Book of Prayer by Muriel Strode (1905). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 13, 2007.
Movement and distortion.
From p. 229 of The Open Road: A Little Book for Wayfarers compiled by E. V. Lucas (1914). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized May 22, 2007.
Severe distortion.
From The ABC: or, Alphabetical Railway Guide, v. 88-99 (1861). Original from Oxford University. Digitized January 25, 2007.
Neon colors, employee’s corrected finger.
From the title page of The ABC of Photography, 10th ed. (1858). Original from Oxford University. Digitized June 1, 2009.
Employee’s fingers autocorrected with mirrored text.
Throughout An Exact Narrative of Many Surprizing Matters of Fact Uncontestably Wrought By an Evil Spirit or Spirits, In the House of Master Jan Smagge (1709). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 10, 2009.