Transfer of printed image onto text of opposing page; snakes!
From p. 334 of The Complete Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Animated Nature, by Oliver Goldsmith (1825). [Here]
Transfer of printed image onto text of opposing page; snakes!
From p. 334 of The Complete Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Animated Nature, by Oliver Goldsmith (1825). [Here]
Library artifacts; checkout slip, card folder, barcode, pamphlet-binding cloth. Stamped “Room use only”, a statement contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution. Acidic card folder image transfer to endpaper.
From back matter of An Account of a Successful Method of Treating Diseases of the Spine by Thomas Baynton (1813). [Here]
Ink from printed plate has transferred to opposite page.
From p. 687 of Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, v. 2 by Erasmus Darwin and Robert Waring Darwin (1796). [Here]
Ink that leaked through the page/as seen through the page
From back matter of A New Spelling Book by John Comly (1811). [Here]
Tracing around transfer of ink from plate on previous page
From p.1 of The Gamester by Mr. Moore (1778). [Here]
Three-dimensional spine view and transferred image from bookplate; evidence that boards are detached; employee’s finger has been auto-corrected with a filter
From front matter of The History of Heredotus (1737). [Here]
Title page with image transfer from opposite plate
From title page of British Zoology, v.3 (1776). [Here]
Image from plate transferred to facing page
From front matter of Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768, by Carver and Lettsom (1778). [Here]
Images transferred from neighboring folded diagrams
From various pages of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v.2 (1786) [Here]
Thin sheets of paper meant to protect plates are scanned as individual pages; with transferred image, various filters (8)
From various pages of The Birds of America, by John James Audubon (1840). [Here]
“In December 2010, The Economist magazine estimated that, adjusted for inflation, five of the ten highest prices ever paid for printed books were paid for copies of Birds of America.” —Source
Thin sheet of paper meant to protect plate is scanned as its own page; with transferred image From p.750 of Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe families, of the past and present in the United States and the Canadas, from 1630 to 1881, ed. by Elias Child (1881). [Here]
Title page with ink transferred from plate and name in ink
From p.3, The life and times of Thomas Wilson Dorr: with outlines of the political history of Rhode Island by Dan King (1859). [Here]