March 20, 2012

Small book in large pamphlet binding left uncropped. Ironically enough, the text includes content on how to precisely measure a book. Submitted by Daniel Reetz

Throughout Directions for Preparing the Bibliographic Record in Psyche, Organ of the Cambridge Entomological Club (1879). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 20, 2008.

August 30, 2011
Library artifacts; checkout slip, card folder, barcode, pamphlet-binding cloth. Stamped “Room use only”, a statement contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution. Acidic card folder image transfer to endpaper.
From back matter of An Account of a Successful Method of Treating Diseases of the Spine by Thomas Baynton (1813). [Here]

Library artifacts; checkout slip, card folder, barcode, pamphlet-binding cloth. Stamped “Room use only”, a statement contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution. Acidic card folder image transfer to endpaper.

From back matter of An Account of a Successful Method of Treating Diseases of the Spine by Thomas Baynton (1813). [Here]

August 4, 2011

Pamphlet bound in larger casing; images not cropped to page size. Includes employee’s gloved fingers, the digitization environment (and, in this case, the tissue paper meant to protect the plate obscures the text on the opposite page)

From p.44-45, and throughout, Sketches of Young Gentlemen: Dedicated to the Young Ladies by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1838). [Here]

May 26, 2011
Pamphlet scanned with (larger) pamphlet library-binding
From Putnam and the Wolf by John Marsh (1829). [Here]

Pamphlet scanned with (larger) pamphlet library-binding

From Putnam and the Wolf by John Marsh (1829). [Here]