November 30, 2011

A very, very used book; leather over paper boards. 

From The New Robinson Crusoe, by Joachim Heinrich Campe (1799). [Here]

November 22, 2011
Folded, taped and tattered pull-out; maps?
From the front matter of Travels in European Turkey, in 1850, by Edmund Spencer (1851). [Here]

Folded, taped and tattered pull-out; maps?

From the front matter of Travels in European Turkey, in 1850, by Edmund Spencer (1851). [Here]

October 13, 2011
Torn endpaper, with tattered edges and ink stains.
From the front matter of Memoirs of What Past in Christendom, from the War Begun 1672 to the Peace Concluded 1679 by William Temple (1709). [Here]

Torn endpaper, with tattered edges and ink stains.

From the front matter of Memoirs of What Past in Christendom, from the War Begun 1672 to the Peace Concluded 1679 by William Temple (1709). [Here]

June 5, 2011
Tattered (possibly home-made) front cover, digitized in black and white
From A Continuation of Morning-Exercise Questions, ed. by Annesley (1683). [Here]

Tattered (possibly home-made) front cover, digitized in black and white

From A Continuation of Morning-Exercise Questions, ed. by Annesley (1683). [Here]