Day 14 of The Art of Google Books.
Happenstance poetry.
Throughout The Ladies' Hand-book of Knitting, Netting, and Crochet (1842).
26 August 2012
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Day 14 of The Art of Google Books.
Happenstance poetry.
Throughout The Ladies' Hand-book of Knitting, Netting, and Crochet (1842).
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Day 13 of The Art of Google Books.
Plates colored by child reader.
From various pages of The Beautiful Book for Little Children (1875).
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Day 12 of The Art of Google Books.
Plate left folded during digitization.
From the rear plates of Joseph Priestley's A Familiar Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Perspective (1770). Original source and date of digitization unknown.
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Day 11 of The Art of Google Books.
Employee's fingers autocorrected with mirrored text.
Throughout William T. Alexander's History of the Colored Race in America (1800). Original source and date of digitization unknown.
29.viii.12
Day 10 of The Art of Google Books.
From the front matter of A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neuraesthenia) by George Miller Beard (1894). Original location and date of digitization unknown.
21 August 2012
28.viii.12
Day 9 from The Art of Google Books.
Rainbow text-stretch.
From p.31 of Martin Buber's I and Thou (2004). Original source and date of digitization unknown. Submitted by microscopic.
27.viii.12
Day 8 of The Art of Google Books.
Intermittent auto-linking on the title page (and verso).
From A Defence 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.
26.viii.12
Day 7 of The Art of Google Books.
Cut-out illustration, with black frame and blue background, of Themistocles (So-called).
From p.182 of William Carey Morey's Outlines of Greek History (1903). Original from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Digitized January 15, 2009.
25.viii.12
Day 6 of The Art of Google Books.
'An Enigma.'
Employee's hands distorted, with portions corrected to white.
From p.104 of Mrs. C. S. Hall's The Juvenile Forget Me Not (1830). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 15, 2006.
24.viii.12
Day 5 of The Art of Google Books.
A gift from Aunt Edith.
From The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1922). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 29, 2009.
20 August 2012
23.viii.12
Day 4 from The Art of Google Books.
Handwritten instructions, 'Omit + raise the Teapot.'
From p.39 of Louis-Benjamin Francoeur's Introduction to Linear Drawing (1825). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 24, 2007.
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Day 3 from The Art of Google Books.
Page in motion.
P.329 of Walter Gore Marshall, Through America; or, Nine Months in the United States (1881). Source and date of digitization unknown.
21.viii.12
Day 2 from The Art of Google Books.
Plates photographed through tissue, throughout The Pearl Fountain, and Other Fairy Tales by Bridget Kavanagh and Julia Kavanagh (1876). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 25, 2007.
20.viii.12
A set of images from Krissy Wilson's wonderful blog, The Art of Google Books: "The diverse, startling adversaria of Google Books merits examination and exhibition. The aim of this project is twofold; to recognize book digitization as rephotography, and to value the signs of use that accompany digitized texts as worthy of documentation and study."
First up, cat footprints from p.170 of Francis Roberts, Clavis Bibliorum: The Key of the Bible (1675). Original from Princeton University. Digitized August 12, 2008.
13 August 2012
12 August 2012
07 August 2012
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Joseph Moxon, Practical Perspective, 1670. First edition, with the famous mica pop-up doorway.
From the collection of our friend Justin Croft.
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London straight or left, 2012 to the right.
Snapped by Sara Jane Bailes in Russell Square.
03 August 2012
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An 18th-century flemish nun's book: a manuscript of instructions for needlework, with patterns and samples inserted. Binding reusing a leaf from a medieval choir book. Currently featured by our friend Justin Croft.
02 August 2012
01 August 2012
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