Tissue with foxing partially covers illustration.
From p. 314 of The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 14, 2005.
May 14, 2013
May 5, 2013
Neon moiré.
From the frontispiece to The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee by Thomas William Humes (1888). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 15, 2006.
April 30, 2013
Frontispiece photographed through tissue.
From The Book of Legends Told Over Again by Horace Elisha Scudder (1889). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 29, 2007.
April 23, 2013
Reader connects gazes.
From p. 378 of Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological Standpoint, Classified and Annotated Bibliographies for the Interpretation of Savage Society edited by William Isaac Thomas (1909). Original from the University of California. Digitized September 27, 2007.
April 22, 2013
Drawings (including bat).
From the back matter of Practical Wood-carving: A Book for the Student, Carver, Teacher, Designer, and Architect by Eleanor Rowe (1907). Original from Princeton University. Digitized September 19, 2008.
April 16, 2013
Thematic foxing.
Throughout A History of Boston: The Metropolis of Massachusetts by Caleb Hopkins Snow (1825). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized January 23, 2008.
April 16, 2013
Plates photographed through tissue.
Throughout Boston of To-day: A Glance at Its History and Characteristics edited by Edwin Monroe Bacon (1892). Original from Harvard University. Digitized August 29, 2006.
April 15, 2013
Handmade, polka-dot book cover with (lewd!) connect-the-dots figure drawn on rear cover.
From Latin Prose Composition for the Middle Forms of Schools by Michael Arthur North (1904). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 30, 2007.
April 13, 2013
Plate left folded; kitchen made smaller.
From p. 384 of The Wife’s Own Book of Cookery by Frederick Bishop (1856). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 31, 2006.
April 13, 2013
Illustration photographed through tissue.
The frontispiece to Athletic Sports in America, England and Australia: Comprising History, Characteristics, Sketches of Famous Leaders, Organization and Great Contests of Baseball, Cricket, Football, Lacrosse, Tennis, Rowing and Cycling by Harry Clay Palmer, James Austin Fynes, Francis C. Richter, and William Ingraham Harris (1889). Original from Harvard University. Digitized January 25, 2008.
March 12, 2013
Illustration photographed through tissue.
The frontispiece to Country Life, and Other Stories by Cousin Mary (1855). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 23, 2008.
March 10, 2013
Illustration reaches from behind tissue.
The frontispiece to Stories from the Classics, adapted by Mary and Elizabeth Kirby (1854). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 11, 2006.
March 4, 2013
Neon moiré and thematic foxing.
From p. 80 of Tales of the Village Children by Francis Edward Paget (1844). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 12, 2007.
March 1, 2013
Plate left thrice-folded.
From the back matter of Diary of a March Through Sinde and Afghanistan by Isaac Nicholson Allen (1843). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized November 2, 2007.
February 25, 2013
Reader comments on image—“Modesty!!”—and another reader questions the comment—”?”
From p. 26 of Poems by Samuel Rogers by Samuel Rogers (1816). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 12, 2008.
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