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The Art of Google Books
The adversaria of Google Books: captured mark of the hand and digitization as rephotography. By Krissy Wilson.
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Distortion.
From p. 476 and p. 480 of A Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics With Especial Reference to the Clinical Application of Drugs by John Vietch Shoemaker (1896).
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Distorted, isolated endpapers.
From the front matter of The American Kennel Club Stud-book, Volume 25 (1909).
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Bird illustration, circles, dashes.
From the title page verso of Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheapen Telegraphy and to Furnish a Complete Cypher (1891).
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Two photos in quick succession = captured motion.
From the back matter of Report on the Introduction of Soft Water Into the City of Boston by Robert Henry Eddy (1836).
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Musical score + cut corner + blue paper.
From p. 583 of The Etude (September 1918).
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Author’s inscription: “I wish you Joy.”
From the title page of Joy by Lillian Elaine Craner (1915).
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Distorted interlibrary loan slip.
From the back matter of Haunted Hearts by Maria Susanna Cummins (1864).
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Neon moire.
Throughout Handbook of Nature-Study for Teachers and Parents by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911).
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Manicules.
In between various volumes of Spectroscopy (1869).
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Autolinks, highlighting, stamps, and handwriting.
From the back matter of Universal Geography by Conrad Malte-Brun (1822)
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Tip in red crayon.
Throughout The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1904).
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Autolink hash.
From the table of contents of Jane Austen and Her Country-house Comedy by William Henry Helm (1909).
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Leather and marbled paper rendered in high contrast black and white.
Covers of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1877).
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Driving IN TRANSIT.
From the back matter of Driving by His Grace the (Eighth) Duke of Beaufort (1901).
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Redacted, in shades of gray.
From the back matter of The Earth's Crust, or, Primogenial Scenes and Other Poems by James Lawson (1863).
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A veil: tissue laid, as if in reverence, over A Very Sad Text.
From p. 68 of A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay, Through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome", in His Majesty's Ship Griper, in the Year 1824 by Captain G.F. Lyon (1825).
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Moire animation.
Images throughout Bull’s-Eye, Volumes 2 and 3 (1922).
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