#used books
[ID: A tweet by The Ripped Bodice (@ TheRippedBodice): “I found this in a used book I am crying” followed by a picture of a book with “to whoever reads this next, I hope you enjoy it. I did not” handwritten in cursive. End ID]
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after my first few months of living in the bookshop last year, i’m excited to return this upcoming january as the wigtown artist in residence.
i’m looking for book lovers of all ages and backgrounds throughout scotland for a portrait series. if you or anyone you know has a cozy home library (could be a full room or just a tiny shelf!), a favorite reading spot, or just love books, please get in touch! i’d love to include you in my project <3
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Peritextual collage: scratched-out bar code, printing and digitization statements, directions for use, author’s name.
From the back matter of Williams’s Letters: Letters Written in France in the Summer 1790 by Helen Maria Williams (1794). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized November 15, 2005.
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Tape repair.
From p.32-33 of The Tale of Old Mr. Crow by Arthur Scott Bailey (1917). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 10, 2013.
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Distorted map.
From the front matter of An Enquiry Into the Life and Writings of Homer by Thomas Blackwell (1757) Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized September 26, 2007.
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Digitization equipment spread.
From the front matter of Catalogue of Stars by Caroline Lucretia Herschel and John Flamsteed (1798). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized January 14, 2011.
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1. Book printed.
2. Book microfilmed.
3. New print copy produced from microfilm copy.
4. New print copy digitized by Google Books.
Blank page from News from the Stars by Henry Newman (1691). Original from Indiana University. Digitized August 9, 2011.
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Distorted table of latitudes and longitudes.
From p. 345 of A New and Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation by John William Norie (1839). Original from Oxford University. Digitized October 24, 2006.
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Blue links engage handwriting in the auto-table-of-contents.
From p. 598 of Systematic Education: or, Elementary Instruction in the Various Departments of Literature and Science, vol. 2 by William Shepherd (1822). Original from the University of California. Digitized August 31, 2007.
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Rear cover swerve.
From the back matter of The Complete Works of the Rev. Andrew Fuller by Andrew Gunton Fuller (1848). Original from the University of Iowa. Digitized December 21, 2015.
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Plates photographed through tissue.
Throughout Arthur’s Home Magazine, vol. 54 (1886). Original from Princeton University. Digitized April 18, 2008.
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Acute textual triangle.
From p. 61 of University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin (1922). Original from the University of California. Digitized September 3, 2009.
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Hole photographed with blue paper behind it.
From p. 540 of Popular Electricity and the World’s Advance, vol. 4, edited by Henry Walter Young (1911). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 11, 2011.
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Employee’s hand.
From p. 72-73 of Red Feather: A Comic Opera in Two Acts by Reginald De Koven and Charles Klein (1903).
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Illustration photographed through tissue.
The frontispiece toDotty Dimple Out West by Sophie May (1869). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 25, 2008.
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Foxing blurred by movement.
From the front matter of On the Present Balance of Parties in the State by John Benn-Walsh (1832). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 10, 2006.
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Circulation slip, with checkouts between and 1977 and 2006.
From the back matter of A Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance, Rhythm by Denman W. Ross (1907). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 7, 2007.
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Child’s autolinked writing-drawing.
From the table of contents of Forget Me Not: A Gift for Sabbath School Children by Amanda M. Corey Edmond (1852). Original from Princeton University.
Digitized February 15, 2008.
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Football drawing or tracing.
From the back matter of Football and How to Watch It by Percy Duncan Haughton (1922). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 29, 2007.
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