May 2, 2013
Partial library stamp.
From p. 447 of L’Art de se Connoître Soy-Même ou la Recherche des Sources de la Morale by Jacques Abbadie (1701). Original from University of Lausanne. Digitized September 4, 2008.

Partial library stamp.

From p. 447 of L’Art de se Connoître Soy-Même ou la Recherche des Sources de la Morale by Jacques Abbadie (1701). Original from University of Lausanne. Digitized September 4, 2008.

April 10, 2013
A black swan lays a University of California library stamp.
From p. 1 of Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years’ Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland by Carl Lumholtz (1889). Original from the University of California. Digitized October 12, 2007.

A black swan lays a University of California library stamp.

From p. 1 of Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years’ Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland by Carl Lumholtz (1889). Original from the University of California. Digitized October 12, 2007.

January 14, 2013
Inscription and stamped response. 
From the front matter of The Happiness of Heaven by Florentin J. Boudreaux (1871). Original from Columbia University. Digitized February 18, 2009.

Inscription and stamped response. 

From the front matter of The Happiness of Heaven by Florentin J. Boudreaux (1871). Original from Columbia University. Digitized February 18, 2009.

January 4, 2013
Mixed-media composition.
From the front matter of Vegetable Charcoal by James Bird (1857). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 5, 2006.

Mixed-media composition.

From the front matter of Vegetable Charcoal by James Bird (1857). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 5, 2006.

November 26, 2012
Partial NYPL stamp.
From the front matter of My Year in a Log Cabin by William Dean Howells (1893). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized July 11, 2007.

Partial NYPL stamp.

From the front matter of My Year in a Log Cabin by William Dean Howells (1893). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized July 11, 2007.

November 15, 2012

Library statement contradicted by digitization and digital distribution.

From the back matter of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by A Square (Edwin A. Abbott, 1885). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 21, 2007.

October 30, 2012
Double double-stamp. 
From the back matter of Fifty Years of Rapid Transit: 1864-1917 by James Blaine Walker (1918). 

Double double-stamp. 

From the back matter of Fifty Years of Rapid Transit: 1864-1917 by James Blaine Walker (1918). 

September 9, 2012
Frontispiece seen though page; location stamp and adhesive barcode crossed out.
From Publii Papinii Statii: Sylvarum Lib. V; Thebaidos Lib. XII; Achilleidos Lib. II (1671). Original from Princeton University. Digitized July 17, 2008.

Frontispiece seen though page; location stamp and adhesive barcode crossed out.

From Publii Papinii Statii: Sylvarum Lib. V; Thebaidos Lib. XII; Achilleidos Lib. II (1671). Original from Princeton University. Digitized July 17, 2008.

July 12, 2012
Underlining, marginalia, and the reverse of a paper-punch.
From p. 2 of Intelligence Tests and School Reorganization by Lewis M. Terman, et. al. (1922). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

Underlining, marginalia, and the reverse of a paper-punch.

From p. 2 of Intelligence Tests and School Reorganization by Lewis M. Terman, et. al. (1922). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

June 27, 2012
Harvard University inadvertently thanks Google when a circulation slip statement is photographed: “Thank you for helping us to preserve our collection!”
From the back matter of The Brain and Its Physiology: A Critical Disquisition on the Methods of Determining the Relations Subsisting Between the Structure and Functions of the Encephalon by Daniel Nobel (1846). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 9, 2008.

Harvard University inadvertently thanks Google when a circulation slip statement is photographed: “Thank you for helping us to preserve our collection!”

From the back matter of The Brain and Its Physiology: A Critical Disquisition on the Methods of Determining the Relations Subsisting Between the Structure and Functions of the Encephalon by Daniel Nobel (1846). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 9, 2008.

June 22, 2012
A neon pocket.
From the back matter of Foundation to Flute Playing: An Elementary Method, by Ernest Frederick Wagner (1918). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

A neon pocket.

From the back matter of Foundation to Flute Playing: An Elementary Method, by Ernest Frederick Wagner (1918). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

June 12, 2012
Circulation card photographed in high contrast.
From the back matter of Fonts and Font Covers by Francis Bond and Frederick Charles Eden (1908). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 7, 2009.

Circulation card photographed in high contrast.

From the back matter of Fonts and Font Covers by Francis Bond and Frederick Charles Eden (1908). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 7, 2009.

June 9, 2012
Library stamps.
From the front matter of The House of Silence by Gordon Holmes (1911). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized January 30, 2007.

Library stamps.

From the front matter of The House of Silence by Gordon Holmes (1911). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized January 30, 2007.

June 5, 2012

Library artifacts intrude on endpaper landscapes. 

From The Golden Silence by Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson (1911). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 28, 2008.

June 1, 2012
Against stamped directions, slip removed from pocket.
From the back matter of The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson (1917). Original from Indiana University. Digitized January 31, 2009.

Against stamped directions, slip removed from pocket.

From the back matter of The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson (1917). Original from Indiana University. Digitized January 31, 2009.