October 3, 2012

Pictorial endpapers in greyscale, high contrast, and color with clips and Harvard Library bookplate.

Detail of creepers:

From Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters by Isabel Anderson (1922). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 5, 2009.

September 9, 2012
The book in the digitization environment (across the gutter).
From the back matter of The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng (1757). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized June 24, 2010.

The book in the digitization environment (across the gutter).

From the back matter of The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng (1757). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized June 24, 2010.

September 1, 2012

Marbled endpapers in blocky black-and-white and greyscale.

From The New World of Words by Edward Phillips (1720). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 13, 2007.

August 23, 2012
Pictorial endpapers slashed by digital gutter (in greyscale and over-exposed color).
From the front matter of Her Father’s Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter (1921). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 6, 2008.

Pictorial endpapers slashed by digital gutter (in greyscale and over-exposed color).

From the front matter of Her Father’s Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter (1921). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 6, 2008.

August 21, 2012
Employee’s hand, distorted. 
From the front matter of The Accomplished Tutor: or, Complete System of Liberal Education by Thomas Hodson (1805). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 10, 2005.

Employee’s hand, distorted. 

From the front matter of The Accomplished Tutor: or, Complete System of Liberal Education by Thomas Hodson (1805). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 10, 2005.

August 14, 2012

Deer and optical illusions in front yard endpapers.

From Patty’s Motor Car by Carolyn Wells (1911). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized March 4, 2009.

July 29, 2012
Illustrated endpapers in black and white and color.
From Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, ills. by N.C. Wyeth (1920). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 29, 2009.

Illustrated endpapers in black and white and color.

From Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, ills. by N.C. Wyeth (1920). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 29, 2009.

July 28, 2012

Pixelation and simplification.

Throughout The Life and Strange Surprising Adventure of Robinson Crusoe of York by Daniel Defoe (1900). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 12, 2009.

July 23, 2012
Marbled endpapers in high contrast (and greyscale).
From Historico-Topographica Descriptio by Michael Wening (1723). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized January 27, 2012.

Marbled endpapers in high contrast (and greyscale).

From Historico-Topographica Descriptio by Michael Wening (1723). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized January 27, 2012.

July 22, 2012
Greyscale vs. black-and-white in one plate.
From p. 10 of The Cap and Gown, v. 10 (1915). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 6, 2009.

Greyscale vs. black-and-white in one plate.

From p. 10 of The Cap and Gown, v. 10 (1915). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 6, 2009.

June 15, 2012

Elaborately designed endpapers digitized in high contrast, with blocks of greyscale.

From Poems Written Occasionally by John Winstanley (1742). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 29, 2007.

June 14, 2012

Marbled paper digitized in blocky black-and-white and greyscale.

From the endpapers of Tales, Anecdotes, and Letters by Jonathan Scott (1800). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized September 16, 2009.

May 21, 2012
Library artifacts in selective black-and-white and greyscale.
From the back matter of A Manual for Use at Funerals by Charles Jason Staples and Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1903). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 15, 2007.

Library artifacts in selective black-and-white and greyscale.

From the back matter of A Manual for Use at Funerals by Charles Jason Staples and Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1903). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 15, 2007.

April 16, 2012

Color images presented in blocky black-and-white and greyscale.

Throughout Motion Picture Classic, v. 3-4 (1915). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 9, 2011.

March 3, 2012
Employee’s hand bitten by high-contrast filter.
From the front matter of Letters from a Father to His Son, v. 2, by John Aikin (1800). 

Employee’s hand bitten by high-contrast filter.

From the front matter of Letters from a Father to His Son, v. 2, by John Aikin (1800).