Collage of peritexts, including the printer’s statement, a cataloger’s notes, and a Public Library of the City of Boston paper punch.
From the front matter of The Human Hair: Its Structure, Growth, Diseases, and Their Treatment by Hermann Beigel (1869). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 23, 2007.
Inscription of ownership - “John Amory.”
From the back matter of The Child’s Instructor by John Ely (1818). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized August 24, 2006.
Arithmetic.
From the back matter of American Historical Tales for Youth by Francis Lister Hawks (1801). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 12, 2007.
Writing autolinked with items from the table of contents (“My Dear Lame / It is pleasure— This / is the letter ??? / Pinkard written to / Miss Lambe”).
From p. xii of Poetry for Children, ed. J. Aikin (1805). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.
Endpapers used for writing, blotting, and test scribbles. Also, clips of the digitization equipment.
From Poetry for Children, ed. J. Aikin (1805). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.
Hand-drawn title page and pasted-in newspaper clippings.
From the front matter of Origin of the Names of the States of the Union by Hamilton B. Staples (1882). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 10, 2006.
From the back matter of A Home on the Deep: or, The Mariners Trials on the Dark Blue Sea by a Son of the Ocean (1859). Original from Pennsylvania State University. Digitized March 31, 2009.
A student’s marginalia: “read it” … “all the page.”
From p. 47 of Ritchie’s First Steps in Latin by Francis Ritchie and Frederick C. Staples (1909). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized July 22, 2008.
A stack of items.
The title page to Practical Poultry Culture, iss. 150-155, by R. W. Davison (1898). Original from Cornell University. Digitized March 19, 2009.
Two inscriptions, one much more subdued than the other.
From the front matter of My Uncle Benjamin by Claude Tiller, trans. Adele Szold Seltzer, ills. Emil Preetorius (1917). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 5, 2008.
A reader comments on the transition of the text to film.
From the table of contents to Kid Scanlan by Harry Charles Witwer (1920). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 14, 2008.
I’m pretty sure Herbert Allan Gilman owned this book.
From the title page to A Country Kid: A Rural Merry Comedy in Three Acts by Nesbit Stone Scoville (1900). Original from Harvard University. Digitized January 22, 2008.
“If my Latin Professor found my textbook looking like this I would be in trouble. Some of the marginalia is obviously translations, but other parts are references to other lines.”
Submitted by Krista Dukes, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From De Vita Caesarum, v. 1-2, by Suetonius, with intro. and notes by John Howell Wescott and and Edwin Moore Rankin (1918). Original from the University of California. Digitized February 28, 2008.
“This book just has a lot of awesome things going on. Someone was practicing their math on the front blank pages and maybe someone else was practicing their handwriting on the last blank pages. There are also doodles throughout and the book appears to have suffered some water damage and rough readers (torn/ripped pages).”
Submitted by Krista Dukes, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
Throughout Conspiracy of Catiline by Charles Anthon (1854). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 2, 2008.
“What had the most effect on me were the last three slides of the book. The third to last slide shows the due dates of when the book was checked out, the first being in 1886 and the most recent in 1991. To think that a science book published over 100 years ago is still relevant in today’s medical field. Especially when the science field is constantly changing with new discoveries.
The slide after this is my favorite. It is another slip of due dates but this one contains the signatures of the users. It truly makes the book so much more real to me; it is not just digitized pages by Google. It is something tangible that has been passed down and used for over 100 years. This book has made its way from G.P. Putnam’s Sons publishing company to the screen of Google Books.”
Submitted by Lauren Khoury, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From the back matter of Functions of the Brain by David Ferrier (1876). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization.
