Colored endpapers digitized in black and white and simplified with filter; also, metal clips, gradient
Front and rear endpapers of Crumbs from my Saddle Bags by E. C. Gavitt (1884). [Here]
Colored endpapers digitized in black and white and simplified with filter; also, metal clips, gradient
Front and rear endpapers of Crumbs from my Saddle Bags by E. C. Gavitt (1884). [Here]
Diagram left folded through digitization
From p.62 of Catalogue of a collection of ancient and mediæval rings and personal ornaments: formed for Lady Londesborough by Thomas Crofton Croker and Baroness Ursula Lucy Grace Bridgeman Denison Londesborough (1853). [Here]
Front cover with in blue cloth with gold stamping… and the pink-gloved finger of an employee
From front matter of A Tar of the Last War by Charles Edward Armstrong and Sir Charles Richardson (1855). [Here]
Worn marbled paper over boards; with library artifacts
From Smoke Rings and Roses by Frank Chaffee (1826). [Here]
Dueling bookplates; Harvard purchase plate placed over a paint advertisement, MIT deposit plate placed on top of that, and eventually crossed out (eventually held by Harvard)
From front matter of Metallic Structures: corrosion and fouling and their prevention by John Newman (1896). [Here]
Underlined phrase: “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
From p.306 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) by Mark Twain (1896). [Here]
Marbled paper digitized in black and white
From front and back matter of Observations on the Virtues and Operations of Medicines by Bryan Robinson (1752). [Here]
Sample scraps of cloth (some missing), digitized in color
From The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, v.3 (1884). [Here]
Map left folded through digitization
From A Geography of the Bible by J. W. and J. A. Alexander for the Massachusetts Sunday School Union (1830). [Here]
Torn, scored leather cover (with brief glimpse of scanning equipment)
From rear cover of New Remedies by Robley Dunglison (1846). [Here]
Torn endpaper reveals writing (and metal clip) behind it
From back matter of Essay on Sheep: Their Varieties by Robert R. Livingston (1809). [Here]
Medical diagram left folded; human body foreshortened
From p.32-3 of Robb & Co.’s Family Physician by R. L. Robb (1882). [Here]
Notes on fruit trees in back endpapers (with metal clip)
From back matter of Essay on Sheep: Their Varieties by Robert R. Livingston (1813). [Here]
Diagram left folded through digitization
From p.56 of The Edinburgh New Dispensatory by William Lewis and John Rotherham (1801). [Here]