Copious notes.
From the front matter of A Voyage to Suratt by John Ovington (1696). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized May 5, 2010.
Copious notes.
From the front matter of A Voyage to Suratt by John Ovington (1696). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized May 5, 2010.
Verso of marbled paper.
From the front matter of C’est la Deduction du Sumptueux Ordre, Plaisantz Spectacles et Magnifiques Theatres (1551). Original from Austrian National Library. Digitized September 27, 2011.
Segments of the inscription in the front matter of The Gentlest Giant (and Other Pleasant Persons): Poems from the Enchanting Realm of When We Were Little by Anna Bird Stewart (1915). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 5, 2009.
“Minimalism.”
Submitted by C. T. Douglas, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From the front matter of A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia) by George Miller Beard (1894). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization.
Paper (likely a bookplate) pasted to inside of front cover was ripped off.
From the front matter of The Power of Religion on the Mind, by Lindley Murray (1801). [Here]
Follow The Art of Google Books on Facebook!
Hand of employee, turning pages.
From front matter (advertisement and endpaper) of The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1826). [Here]
Provenance; “From the author” inscribed on fly title page
From the front matter of The Elements of Mechanics by James Renwick (1832). [Here]