Ink hurricanes.
From the title page of L’Art de se Connoitre Soy-Mesme: ou, La Recherche des Sources de la Morale by Jacques Abbadie (1710). Original from Columbia University. Digitized October 16, 2009.
May 1, 2013
April 15, 2013
Links invade the title page.
From A Compendium of Practical Music in Five Parts: Teaching, by a New and Easie Method, 1. The Rudiments of Song. 2. The Principles of Composition. 3. The Use of Discords. 4. The Form of Figurate Descant. 5. The Contrivance of Canon, v. 1, by Christopher Simpson (1667). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized July 1, 2010.
March 25, 2013
Collage of peritexts.
From the title page and title page verso of From Under the Cloud: or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity by Anna Agnew (1886). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 5, 2007.
February 4, 2013
Marked letters.
From the title page of New Orleans As I Found It by Edward Henry Durell (1845). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 13, 2006.
January 23, 2013
Scrawl.
From the title page of Philadelphia Directory by A. M’Elroy (1839). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 10, 2007.
January 19, 2013
Title page, though recto of tissue covering previous plate.
From Candy-making Revolutionized: Confectionery from Vegetables by Mary Elizabeth Hall (1912). Original from the University of California. Digitized December 12, 2007.
January 10, 2013
Lines by Goethe as handwritten epigraph.
Stirb und werde!
Denn so lang du das nicht hast,
Bist du nur ein trüber Gast
Auf der dunklen Erde.
Die and become!
For so long as you have not attained it,
you will be only a gloomy guest
on this dark Earth.
From the title page of Dying to Self: A Golden Dialogue by William Law and Andrew Murray (1898). Original from Columbia University. Digitized October 16, 2009.
December 6, 2012
Inscription of the Grecian Coffee House, London.
From the title page of Une Journée des Parques: A Day’s Work of the Fates by Alain René Le Sage (1745). Original from Columbia University. Digitized April 13, 2009.
December 3, 2012
Frontispiece and reader’s pencil copy of frontispiece.
From the title page of The Cradle Song and Other Plays by Gregorio Martínez Sierra, with introduction and translation by John Garrett Underhill (1921). Original from Indiana University. Digitized July 15, 2010.
November 26, 2012
Cataloger’s notes.
From the title page of Thanksgiving: Memories of the Day, Helps to the Habit by William Adams (1867). Original from the University of California. Digitized December 5, 2006.
October 4, 2012
Marginalia: “The rays of light are separated by…”
From the title page of A Dictionary of the English Language, v. 1, by Noah Webster (1831). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized August 19, 2009.
July 13, 2012
Title page doodles.
From A System of Human Anatomy, General and Special, by Erasmus Wilson, ed. Paul B. Goddard (1813). Original from the University of California. Digitized April 27, 2009.
June 25, 2012
Intermittent autolinking on the title page, verso, and table of contents.
From A Defence [sic.] of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England by William Wake (1686). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized February 6, 2012.
May 21, 2012
Hand-drawn title page and pasted-in newspaper clippings.
From the front matter of Origin of the Names of the States of the Union by Hamilton B. Staples (1882). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 10, 2006.
April 21, 2012
OCR recognizes text from title page, even when photographed through protective tissue.
Discovered by carolinhaney of John Crooks’s UC Irvine course Digital Media: Current Directions (Arts 12 of Google Books).
From the title page of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1906). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 15, 2008.
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