notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

theartofgooglebooks:

Employee holds plates closed.

Throughout The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1732 to the Year 1744), edited by John Martyn (1747). Original from Montserrat Abbey Library. Digitized February 9, 2011.

Finger protection in evidence.

theartofgooglebooks:

Reanimated stain.

From L’Examen de Soy-Mesme pour Bien se Préparer à la Communion par Jean Claude (1682). Original from the Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 16, 2010.

I don’t follow The Art Of Google Books, so every now and again I have a look and find gems like this.

theartofgooglebooks (via notational)

An employee’s fingers, a transformative gutter, and color samples.

From p. 16 of Index of Colours and Mixed Tints by Theodore Henry A. Fielding (1830). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 31, 2006.

So good.

Here’s a fun ngram: an OCR glitch that tracks the rise of Helvetica. books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c…

— Benjamin Schmidt (@benmschmidt) November 29, 2012

Edited slightly to go from 1940 to 2000, instead of the default 1800 to 2008.

This quote from Carl Sagan has been doing the rounds, but I wanted to check the source. It turns out it’s from The Demon-Haunted World.

theartofgooglebooks:

Printed plate left folded through digitization.

From p.539 of Elements of Technology by Jacob Bigelow (1831).

Glitchy steam engines.

theartofgooglebooks:

Map left folded through digitization.

From the front matter of Chicago and the Great Conflagration, by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (1871). [Here]

theartofgooglebooks:

Card folder reads “Do not remove or mutilate card.” Card removed (and potentially mutilated).

From the back matter of The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (1921). 

Popular plot devices in English fiction, 1920-2010 (via Danny O’Brien).