Reanimated stain.
From L’Examen de Soy-Mesme pour Bien se Préparer à la Communion par Jean Claude (1682). Original from the Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 16, 2010.
May 1, 2013
December 16, 2012
Spilled ink.
From p. 432-33 of Forty Sermons Preached at the Parish-Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Milk-street, London by Anthony Farindon (1663). Original from the University of California. Digitized August 18, 2011.
December 3, 2012
Impressions of illustrations from facing pages.
Throughout Family Magazine: or, Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, v. 2 (1835). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 12, 2007.
September 24, 2012
Reanimated stain.
From Tavern Anecdotes, and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Coffee-houses, &c by William West (1830). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 17, 2008.
September 19, 2012
Reanimated fore-edge spill.
From Astro-Meteorologica: Or, Aphorisms of the Coelestial Bodies by John Goad (1699). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized June 15, 2012.
September 5, 2012
Neon patch.
From the final page of Bibliotheca Scholastica: A Double Dictionarie, Penned for All Those that Would Haue Within Short Space the Use of the Latin Tongue, Either to Speake, Or Write by John Rider (1589). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized September 22, 2009.
June 22, 2012
Stains (perhaps from something held between the pages).
From A Treatise on the Structure and Preservation of the Violin and All Other Bow-Intruments by Jacob August Otto (1848). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 8, 2008.
November 29, 2011
![Artifact removed, glue remains.
From the front matter of Contributions to Medical and Biological Research, by Sir William Osler (1919). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvdvq2kpdQ1qixa76o1_1280.png)
Artifact removed, glue remains.
From the front matter of Contributions to Medical and Biological Research, by Sir William Osler (1919). [Here]
November 10, 2011
![Unknown blotch with fingerprints.
From the back matter of Life’s Lesson: A Tale, by Martha McCannon Thomas (1854). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luf5hg6RH41qixa76o1_400.png)
Unknown blotch with fingerprints.
From the back matter of Life’s Lesson: A Tale, by Martha McCannon Thomas (1854). [Here]
September 29, 2011
![Printed plate photographed through protective tissue; in full color, with staining.
From p. 10 of American Comic Annual, ed. by Henry James Finn (1831). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls9kj4Cqt11qixa76o1_500.png)
Printed plate photographed through protective tissue; in full color, with staining.
From p. 10 of American Comic Annual, ed. by Henry James Finn (1831). [Here]
September 9, 2011
Staining, of unknown origin—food? Ink? Candle wax? Pressed flowers?
From various pages of The Examiner (v. 314, pt. 65;1814). [Here]
August 22, 2011
Multi-page stain (from candle wax?), with various color and black and white filters.
From various pages of Tales for Children by Hans Christian Andersen (1869). [Here]
