Someone “fixed” this with some poorly placed pieces of double-sided tape. Sigh.
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Sooooooomebody went a little crazy with the Demco hinge tape (link is definitely not an endorsement, but for educational reasons only)!! I counted SEVEN pages with the tape on it, not to mention the green tape on the cover. This book is now brittle and breaking at the edges of the tape. Sigh.
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This is the first time I’ve seen a diazotype that wasn’t a single sheet or an architectural print. This one is a music score, with tape on it, natch. It stinks to high heaven.
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Welcome to the 18th century, where the ex libris are made up and the straightness of your tooling doesn’t matter.
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All these leaves and flowers were found pressed between the pages of one of our herbals, from Special Collections.
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From “Leather for Libraries”, 1905. Read it online!
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Original collage by me. This was a page that was cut out of a library book by a patron, which was replaced by us.
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From Reverend O’Conor’s “Facts About Bookworms”. New York, 1898.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, If you put tape on your books, I’ll never EVER love you.
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A book bound in burlap! It’s as scratchy as it looks. The title and cover image were printed directly on the burlap. Saraswati, Baidyanath. Pottery-making cultures and Indian civilization. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1979, c1978.