High-contrast marbled paper.
The endpapers of The Natural History of Barbados in Ten Books by Griffith Hughes (1750). Original from Lyon Public Library. Digitized July 3, 2012.
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June 12, 2013
Browning from left-in item(s).
From p. 88-89 of The Physiology of Digestion: With Experiments on the Gastric Juice by William Beaumont (1847). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 12, 2007.
June 12, 2013
Recipes handwritten into endpapers: Portland fruit-cake, bread, seed-cakes, sponge-cake and rice cakes.
From the endpapers of The Young Housekeeper’s Friend: or, A Guide to Domestic Economy and Comfort by Mrs. Cornelius (1846). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 7, 2007.
June 11, 2013
Circulation from 1897 to 1959.
From the back matter of The Boy’s Playbook of Science: Including the Various Manipulations and Arrangements of Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus Required for the Successful Performance of Scientific Experiments by John Henry Pepper (1860). Original from Harvard University. Digitized August 17, 2007.
June 11, 2013
Distortion, motion, movement.
The rear cover of The Elements of Social Science: or, Physical, Sexual and Natural Religion by George R. Drysdale (1861). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized May 6, 2008.
June 10, 2013
Worm holes.
From ‘EIΣ ΘEOΣ, ’EIΣ MEΣITHΣ; or, An Attempt to Shew How Far the Philosophical Notion of a Plurality of Worlds is Consistent, or Not So, with the Language of the Holy Scriptures by Edward Nares (1801). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 8, 2008.
June 10, 2013
Blocky greyscale and black-and-white optimization.
Throughout Atkinson’s Casket (1835). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 31, 2008.
June 10, 2013
Impossible places (plates left folded).
Throughout A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem: at Easter, A.D. 1697 by Henry Maundrell (1749). Original from Princeton University. Digitized February 25, 2011.
June 10, 2013
Thematic foxing (man on fire).
From p. 542 of Atkinson’s Casket (1835). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 31, 2008.
June 10, 2013
Circulation slip with a spectrum of stamp colors and checkouts from 1916 to 1954.
From the back matter of The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 (1905). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
June 10, 2013
Neon moiré.
Throughout The World at Home, Or Pictures and Scenes from Far-off Lands by Mary Kirby Gregg (1869). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 9, 2007.
June 5, 2013
Redacted segments.
From The Suffolk Traveller: or, A Journey Through Suffolk by John Kirby (1735). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 19, 2007.
June 5, 2013
Jane Toman left a boarding pass stub inside the front cover of A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy, v. 1, by Frederick Law Olmsted (1856). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
June 4, 2013
Poem clipped, pasted into front endpapers, and edited.
From the front matter of Fashion, The Emigrants, and Other Poems by Thomas Gillet (1819). Original from Oxford University. Digitized August 9, 2006.
June 4, 2013
Illustrations left folded.
Throughout Gazette of Fashion, and Cutting-room Companion, v. 20, by Edward Minister and Son (1866). Original from Oxford University. Digitized January 19, 2007.
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