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.
May 20, 2012
March 17, 2012
“A mis-timed page turn, and the subsequent OTR translation.” Submitted by squishysound.
From Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 17, 2006.
March 16, 2012
Clipped-out and pasted-in portrait of Christina Rossetti.
From the front matter of Goblin Market, and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, ills. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1865). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 26, 2006.
March 16, 2012
Reader-painted plate.
From p. of Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, ills. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1875). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized February 8, 2006.
February 27, 2012
Page torn, perhaps by Google Books employee. The photograph of p. 53 is of a whole page, but after the leaf is turned, there is a tear in the photograph of p. 54.
From Taxation of Incomes, Excess Profits, and Luxuries in Certain Foreign Countries by André Bernard (1921).
February 21, 2012
New texts created when read through burnt holes.
From p. 31-34 of Memoir of Harriet Dow by Baron Stow (1832).
Previously documented here.
February 17, 2012
Poem pasted above half title, with commentary.
From the front matter of Graffiti D’Italia by William Wetmore Story (1868).
February 16, 2012
Pages merged when photographed in motion, with high contrast.
From p. 7 (?) of Observations on the Education of the Deaf and Dumb (1834).
February 11, 2012
A handwritten segment of “L’Allegro” by John Milton.
From the front matter of Euphrosyne: or, Amusements on the Road of Life by Richard Graves (1776).
January 24, 2012
A poem created from texts distorted and juxtaposed by turning pages.
From p. 355 (?) of The Works of George Herbert: Poetry by George Herbert, ed. Christopher Harvey (1846).
January 11, 2012
Paper obscures text, creating a new poem.
From p. 244 of The British Poets, Including Translations (1822).
December 22, 2011
John Donne’s “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” annotated.
From p. 75 of The Love Poems of John Donne, ed. Charles Eliot Norton (1905).
December 6, 2011
![Folded page; alternate text created.
From p. 197 of The Life of Pill Garlick: Rather a Whimsical Sort of Fellow, by Edmond Temple (1813). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvqlovK83Y1qixa76o1_400.png)
Folded page; alternate text created.
From p. 197 of The Life of Pill Garlick: Rather a Whimsical Sort of Fellow, by Edmond Temple (1813). [Here]
December 5, 2011
Slices of text (and happenstance poetry).
From various pages of The Ladies’ Hand-book of Knitting, Netting, and Crochet (1842). [Here]
Note: I’m not the first to notice this. “Most even-numbered pages are missing; two of the few that exist are badly scanned, one includes the image of the scanning hand,” notes one user in a review. —kcw
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