May 14, 2013

Fore-edge and employee’s (distorted) hand.

From Psalmi Finn (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.

April 29, 2013

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.

April 23, 2013
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.

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.

April 17, 2013

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.

April 10, 2013
Don’t touch that! An employee’s hands over an illustration of the Portuguese man o’ war. 
From p. 8 of Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australia by George Bennett (1860). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2006.

Don’t touch that! An employee’s hands over an illustration of the Portuguese man o’ war

From p. 8 of Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australia by George Bennett (1860). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2006.

April 7, 2013
Transformative gutter (and employee’s ringed fingers).
From the front matter of Regulations for the Army of the United States (1857). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

Transformative gutter (and employee’s ringed fingers).

From the front matter of Regulations for the Army of the United States (1857). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

March 27, 2013

Glitched hands.

From the front and back matter of The Works: Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse by Thomas Brown and James Drake (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized September 27, 2011.

March 23, 2013
The transformative gutter.
From the back matter of A Homoeopathic Materia Medica On a New and Original Plan: A Sample Fascicle Containing the Arsenic Group by Marvin W. Van Denburg (1894). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 8, 2007.

The transformative gutter.

From the back matter of A Homoeopathic Materia Medica On a New and Original Plan: A Sample Fascicle Containing the Arsenic Group by Marvin W. Van Denburg (1894). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 8, 2007.

March 19, 2013
Employee holds folded plate closed. 
The frontispiece to A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India by Lieut. Colon Forrest (1824). Original from Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 22, 2011.

Employee holds folded plate closed. 

The frontispiece to A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India by Lieut. Colon Forrest (1824). Original from Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 22, 2011.

March 18, 2013
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.

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.

March 12, 2013
“An Enigma” of distortion and correction of employee’s hand.
From p. 104 of The Juvenile Forget Me Not, edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall (1830). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 15, 2006.

“An Enigma” of distortion and correction of employee’s hand.

From p. 104 of The Juvenile Forget Me Not, edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall (1830). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 15, 2006.

March 12, 2013
Glitch composition.
From the front matter of A Sorrowful Respect Paid to the Dead Vindicated: and Proper Limits Set to It by Thomas Barnard (1718). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 23, 2009.

Glitch composition.

From the front matter of A Sorrowful Respect Paid to the Dead Vindicated: and Proper Limits Set to It by Thomas Barnard (1718). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 23, 2009.

March 11, 2013
Employee turns pages.
The frontispiece and title page of Traits and Stories of Anglo-Indian Life by Henry Robert Addison (1858). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 21, 2007.

Employee turns pages.

The frontispiece and title page of Traits and Stories of Anglo-Indian Life by Henry Robert Addison (1858). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 21, 2007.

February 26, 2013
Employee as surgeon. Submitted by thetwogermanys. 
From Recherches cliniques et thérapeutiques sur l’épilepsie, l’hystérie et l’Idiotie by Désiré Magloire Bourneville (1899). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

Employee as surgeon. Submitted by thetwogermanys

From Recherches cliniques et thérapeutiques sur l’épilepsie, l’hystérie et l’Idiotie by Désiré Magloire Bourneville (1899). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

February 12, 2013
“ARRANGEMENT: Interrogative.” Employee turns pages.
From The Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association: For the Use of All Departments of the Railway Service (1906). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 11, 2005.

“ARRANGEMENT: Interrogative.” Employee turns pages.

From The Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association: For the Use of All Departments of the Railway Service (1906). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 11, 2005.