April 23, 2013
Reader connects gazes.
From p. 378 of Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological Standpoint, Classified and Annotated Bibliographies for the Interpretation of Savage Society edited by William Isaac Thomas (1909). Original from the University of California. Digitized September 27, 2007.

Reader connects gazes.

From p. 378 of Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological Standpoint, Classified and Annotated Bibliographies for the Interpretation of Savage Society edited by William Isaac Thomas (1909). Original from the University of California. Digitized September 27, 2007.

April 15, 2013

Handmade, polka-dot book cover with (lewd!) connect-the-dots figure drawn on rear cover.

From Latin Prose Composition for the Middle Forms of Schools by Michael Arthur North (1904). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 30, 2007.

February 12, 2013
Illustration.
From the title page verso of Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheapen Telegraphy and to Furnish a Complete Cypher (1891). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 22, 2008.

Illustration.

From the title page verso of Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheapen Telegraphy and to Furnish a Complete Cypher (1891). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 22, 2008.

February 7, 2013

Reader connects the dots of a paper punch.

From p. 99 of The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton (1892). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized November 23, 2005.

January 24, 2013
Title page illustration by the author-illustrator. 
From The Dune Country by Earl Howell Reed (1916). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 9, 2007.

Title page illustration by the author-illustrator. 

From The Dune Country by Earl Howell Reed (1916). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 9, 2007.

December 17, 2012
Hand-drawn map.
From the front matter of Psychology by William James (1893). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 21, 2005.

Hand-drawn map.

From the front matter of Psychology by William James (1893). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 21, 2005.

December 13, 2012

Fogg Museum ephemera (with doodle) used as bookmark.

From p. 465 of The Principles of Money and Banking, v. 2, by Charles Arthur Conant (1905). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 7, 2005.

December 3, 2012

Frontispiece and reader’s pencil copy of frontispiece. 

From the title page of The Cradle Song and Other Plays by Gregorio Martínez Sierra, with introduction and translation by John Garrett Underhill (1921). Original from Indiana University. Digitized July 15, 2010.

August 6, 2012
Handwritten directions: “Omit + raise the Teapot.”
From p. 39 of Introduction to Linear Drawing by Louis-Benjamin Francœur (1825). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 24, 2007.

Handwritten directions: “Omit + raise the Teapot.”

From p. 39 of Introduction to Linear Drawing by Louis-Benjamin Francœur (1825). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 24, 2007.

August 4, 2012
Hand-drawn illustrations: leaf, pitcher, sawbuck. 
From p. 102 of The American Drawing-Book by John Gadsby Chapman (1857). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 16, 2007.

Hand-drawn illustrations: leaf, pitcher, sawbuck. 

From p. 102 of The American Drawing-Book by John Gadsby Chapman (1857). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 16, 2007.

July 24, 2012

Drawings: dogs and buildings.

From The Juvenile Drawing-Book by John Rubens Smith (1844). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 24, 2007.

July 21, 2012

Scribbles, doodles, and drawings everywhere

Throughout The Principles of Arithmetic by Joseph Ray (1856). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 6, 2007.

More:

June 11, 2012

An alternative title page drawn into the front endpapers.

From the front matter of Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Newly Translated Out of Original Tongues and With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised (1715). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 4, 2009.

May 25, 2012

Endpapers used for writing, blotting, and test scribbles. Also, clips of the digitization equipment.

From Poetry for Children, ed. J. Aikin (1805). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.

May 24, 2012
Child’s illustration.
From the back matter of Constance Latimer: or, The Blind Girl by Emma Catherine Embury (1838). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 14, 2008.

Child’s illustration.

From the back matter of Constance Latimer: or, The Blind Girl by Emma Catherine Embury (1838). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 14, 2008.