October 10, 2011
UC Berkeley library stamp, bookplate of Don Horter, and clips of digitization equipment.
From the front matter of Fly-fishing and Fly-making for Trout, Etc., by John Harrington Keene (1887). [Here]
(Submitted to The Art of Google Books by Dale Brooks.)

UC Berkeley library stamp, bookplate of Don Horter, and clips of digitization equipment.

From the front matter of Fly-fishing and Fly-making for Trout, Etc., by John Harrington Keene (1887). [Here]

(Submitted to The Art of Google Books by Dale Brooks.)

September 18, 2011
“Date due”: never. An apt statement, considering the book’s digital distribution.
From the back matter of Pounce & Co., or, Capital vs. Labor: an Original Comic Opera. In Two Acts, by Benjamin E. Woolf (1882). [Here]

“Date due”: never. An apt statement, considering the book’s digital distribution.

From the back matter of Pounce & Co., or, Capital vs. Labor: an Original Comic Opera. In Two Acts, by Benjamin E. Woolf (1882). [Here]

September 13, 2011
Library artifacts touting “Library use” and “Non-circulating book”; statements contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution.
From back matter of The Dark Blue, v. 4-5 (1873).[Here]

Library artifacts touting “Library use” and “Non-circulating book”; statements contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution.

From back matter of The Dark Blue, v. 4-5 (1873).[Here]

August 31, 2011

Color and black and white images of digitization equipment and book in digitization environment.

From Early Schools and School-books of New England by George Emery Littlefield (1904). [Here]

August 29, 2011
Digitization equipment clips, handwritten call number, remnants of glue from bookplate or tape from torn-out newspaper clipping (?).
From the front matter of The Works of William Paley, D.D.: Natural Theology (1825). [Here]

Digitization equipment clips, handwritten call number, remnants of glue from bookplate or tape from torn-out newspaper clipping (?).

From the front matter of The Works of William Paley, D.D.: Natural Theology (1825). [Here]

August 26, 2011

Front endpaper torn off to reveal board beneath it; calligraphic writing in pencil and ink.

Rear endpaper partially scratched off; drawings and ownership marks in pencil and ink. Library artifacts of the Biblioteca de Cataluñya include stamp, bookplate, and barcode. 

Both include metal clips from digitization equipment.

From front and back matter of The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (1791). [Here]

August 25, 2011

Front endpaper with ownership marks in pencil and ink, overlaid with unknown bookplate and digitization equipment clip; ”confined to the library” statement contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution.

From front matter of The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In six volumes, v. 5, by John Dryden (1717). [Here]

August 23, 2011
Rear cover, with digitization environment and dust (book detritus?). 
Detail, from back matter of Sanitary and Heating Age (1893). [Here]

Rear cover, with digitization environment and dust (book detritus?). 

Detail, from back matter of Sanitary and Heating Age (1893). [Here]

July 28, 2011
Image of spine of bound periodical, with library sticker, checkered digitization equipment, and black and white filter.
From The Ibis, v.5 (1899). [Here]

Image of spine of bound periodical, with library sticker, checkered digitization equipment, and black and white filter.

From The Ibis, v.5 (1899). [Here]

July 20, 2011
Torn, scored leather cover (with brief glimpse of scanning equipment)
From rear cover of New Remedies by Robley Dunglison (1846). [Here]

Torn, scored leather cover (with brief glimpse of scanning equipment)

From rear cover of New Remedies by Robley Dunglison (1846). [Here]