Impossible places and creatures (illustrations left folded).
Throughout A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, in 1758 by Rev. John Lindsay (1759). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 28, 2007.
May 6, 2013
March 4, 2013
Child-painted plates.
Throughout Rainbows for Children by Caroline Sturgis Tappan (1848). Original from Harvard University. Digitized October 3, 2007.
February 4, 2013
Copious marginalia, including tracing.
Throughout The Story of the Battle of New Orleans by Stanley Clisby Arthur (1915). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized September 19, 2008.
January 30, 2013
Unlikely places (plates left folded).
Throughout The Rarities of Richmond: Exact Descriptions of the Royal Hermitage and Merlin’s Cave, With His Life and Prophesies by Edmund Curll (1736). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 19, 2007.
January 27, 2013
Neon moiré.
Throughout Childhood: Its Care and Culture by Mary Allen West (1892). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 22, 2009.
January 19, 2013
Plates photographed through tissue.
Throughout Wild Sports in the Far West by Friedrich Gerstäcker (1859). Original from Princeton University. Digitized September 2, 2010.
January 10, 2013
Child-colored plate.
From the title page of Olney’s First Lessons in Arithmetic by Edward Olney (1884).Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized September 9, 2009.
October 17, 2012
Child-painted illustrations. Discovered by Christina Paik of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.
Throughout Umbrellas and Their History (1864). Original from Harvard University. Digitized October 3, 2007.
August 22, 2012
Inscription on verso of plate bleeds through (see also: “sailing chariot”).
The frontispiece to Curiosities for the Ingenious: Selected from the Most Authentic Treasures of Nature, Science and Art, Biography, History, and General Literature (1822). Original from Harvard University. Digitized January 22, 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.
