October 17, 2012
“Unopened plate (between pp 212-213), illustrating E. F. Boyd, his “On a Part of the Carboniferous or Mountain Limestone Series of Northumberland,” inTransactions, North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, vol. 9 (1860-61). (Google Books image here ; article pp 185-225) Digitized March 7, 2011 from copy at Ghent University (internal stamp of Université de Gand., Laboratoire de Géologie, and bookplate of Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Geologisch Laboratorium). Boyd’s essay is beautifully written. More images (no hands), from other articles in other volumes of these Transactions, start here.” Submitted by John McVey (asfaltics). 

“Unopened plate (between pp 212-213), illustrating E. F. Boyd, his “On a Part of the Carboniferous or Mountain Limestone Series of Northumberland,” inTransactions, North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, vol. 9 (1860-61). (Google Books image here ; article pp 185-225)

Digitized March 7, 2011 from copy at Ghent University (internal stamp of Université de Gand., Laboratoire de Géologie, and bookplate of Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Geologisch Laboratorium).

Boyd’s essay is beautifully written. More images (no hands), from other articles in other volumes of these Transactions, start here.”

Submitted by John McVey (asfaltics). 

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August 18, 2012
Employee’s hand. From p. 353-53 of The Antipathie of the English Lordly Prelacie, Both to Regall Monarchy and Civil Unity by William Prynne (1641). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 22, 2005.

Employee’s hand.

From p. 353-53 of The Antipathie of the English Lordly Prelacie, Both to Regall Monarchy and Civil Unity by William Prynne (1641). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 22, 2005.

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May 14, 2012
Selective autocorrect of employee’s fingertip. From p. 256 of The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvinalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, trans. Dryden, et. al. (1735). Original from Oxford University. Digitized October 11, 2007.

Selective autocorrect of employee’s fingertip.

From p. 256 of The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvinalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, trans. Dryden, et. al. (1735). Original from Oxford University. Digitized October 11, 2007.

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February 6, 2012
Employee holds in printed ephemera. From the front matter of Simon Newcomb: Memorial Addresses by Charles K. Wead, et. al. (1910). 

Employee holds in printed ephemera.

From the front matter of Simon Newcomb: Memorial Addresses by Charles K. Wead, et. al. (1910). 

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January 20, 2012
Sam. W. Small keeps his eye on Google Books employees. From the back matter (?) of Sermons by Sam Porter Jones and Samuel White Small (1886). 

Sam. W. Small keeps his eye on Google Books employees.

From the back matter (?) of Sermons by Sam Porter Jones and Samuel White Small (1886). 

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December 3, 2011
Hand of employee—with dirty fingernails! From the front matter of Libraries: A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods, v. 1 (1896). [Here]

Hand of employee—with dirty fingernails!

From the front matter of Libraries: A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods, v. 1 (1896). [Here]

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November 21, 2011
Lots and lots of blank pages and forefingers. From the back matter (?) of The Danger of Pleasing Men, by Richard Barker (1707). [Here]

Lots and lots of blank pages and forefingers.

From the back matter (?) of The Danger of Pleasing Men, by Richard Barker (1707). [Here]

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October 28, 2011
The finger of an employee holding an ownership plate in the center of the page. From the front matter of The King’s Cup-Bearer: A Sermon in Memory of the Rev. E. Winchester Donald, by William Reed Huntington (1905). [Here]

The finger of an employee holding an ownership plate in the center of the page.

From the front matter of The King’s Cup-Bearer: A Sermon in Memory of the Rev. E. Winchester Donald, by William Reed Huntington (1905). [Here]

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October 14, 2011
Hand of employee with pink gloves: application of two different filters, fore-edge shown, attempted autocorrect of fingers. From p. 196 of The Chemical Works of Caspar Neumann, vol. 2, by Caspar Neumann, ed. William Lewis (1773). [Here]

Hand of employee with pink gloves: application of two different filters, fore-edge shown, attempted autocorrect of fingers.

From p. 196 of The Chemical Works of Caspar Neumann, vol. 2, by Caspar Neumann, ed. William Lewis (1773). [Here]

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September 29, 2011

Finger of employee captured and auto-corrected with ornate pattern.

From the front matter of The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities, v.1, by William Makepeace Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Horace Mayhew, and Henry Mayhew (1843). [Here]

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August 13, 2011
Captured page-turning motion. From p. 250 of Millman’s Tales, Adapted for the Higher Classes of Youth (1831). [Here]

Captured page-turning motion.

From p. 250 of Millman’s Tales, Adapted for the Higher Classes of Youth (1831). [Here]

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August 8, 2011
elderean: By andrew sardone on Flickr. Error de digitalización en Google Books. Mano de operario sujetando una hoja. Yo pensaba que todo el proceso estaba automatizado. Me alivia saber que no soy el único que se fotografía la mano ;)

elderean:

By andrew sardone on Flickr.

Error de digitalización en Google Books. Mano de operario sujetando una hoja. Yo pensaba que todo el proceso estaba automatizado. Me alivia saber que no soy el único que se fotografía la mano ;)

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August 7, 2011
Gloved hand of employee, over two consecutive pages; covers author’s presentation inscription, title page. From front matter of Six discourses on the functions of the lungs, and causes, prevention and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma and diseases of the heart ; on the laws of life ; and on the mode of preserving male and female health to an hundred years by S. S. Fitch (1856). [Here]

Gloved hand of employee, over two consecutive pages; covers author’s presentation inscription, title page.

From front matter of Six discourses on the functions of the lungs, and causes, prevention and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma and diseases of the heart ; on the laws of life ; and on the mode of preserving male and female health to an hundred years by S. S. Fitch (1856). [Here]

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July 29, 2011
Hand of employee turning page and obscuring text. From p. 244 of The Historical Reader by John Lauris Blake (1825). [Here]

Hand of employee turning page and obscuring text.

From p. 244 of The Historical Reader by John Lauris Blake (1825). [Here]

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July 24, 2011
Front cover with in blue cloth with gold stamping… and the pink-gloved finger of an employee From front matter of A Tar of the Last War by Charles Edward Armstrong and Sir Charles Richardson (1855). [Here]

Front cover with in blue cloth with gold stamping… and the pink-gloved finger of an employee

From front matter of A Tar of the Last War by Charles Edward Armstrong and Sir Charles Richardson (1855). [Here]

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