June 29, 2012

Text photographed through page. 

Throughout An Essay on Generosity and Greatness of Spirit: The Builders of Colleges, Hospitals and Schools, Prais’d and Commended by Henry Mills and William Wake (1732). Original from Princeton University. Digitized September 16, 2008.

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February 15, 2012

Printed plates visible through the page? Transfer of ink from printed plates to facing pages? Plates traced by reader, through the page? 

From various pages of A Treatise of Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, for Thirty-Five Years by Charles Leadbetter (1731). 

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