ASU Book Traces Project
Our project seeks to identify, record, and photograph significant, unique features of C19 and early C20 readership found in out-of-copyright ASU-owned books. To begin, we're examining pre-1923 titles in the PRs and the PSs in Hayden Library. (There are 13,673 pre-1923 books on the shelves in the PR and PS--British and American literature--sections.) This ASU Digital Repository space will collect digital images of the most interesting of these examples. We will also be sharing some of them with the University of Virginia-based crowd-sourced project founded and led by Prof. Andrew Stauffer, from which we take our project name and our inspiration: http://booktraces.org. We hope to locate objects for a potential future ASU special exhibit in 2019, when Hayden Library re-opens after its major renovation. (The books are leaving the tower in summer 2017.)
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- Creators: Devoney, Looser
- Creators: Brown, Henry
This edition features the author's gift inscription, "To Thomas Sharrock from A C Benson [Magd Dol Lam?] May 10 1915 With all best wishes".
This edition has an autographed letter with signature from Derwent Coleridge (dated 13 November 1865) tipped-in on a front endpaper. The letter is from Derwent Coleridge, third son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, describing Coleridge-associated publications of the mid-nineteenth century.
This edition includes a gift inscription and book plate. The inscription reads, "Hilda Bragg from C. A. E. R.". The bookplate is Hilda Bragg's.
This edition has a tipped-in letter and an advertisement for the book. The letter is a patronage request from the editor, Henry Brown of Newington Butts, "31 Albert Street Newington Butts London Jan 4th 1870 Sir I am the author of the new work upon the Sonnets of Shakespeare, and am seeking a little aid from a few of my Subscribers, to enable me to cover the expenses of my work. being a poor working man now unfortunately out of work, any slight assistance would be most thankfully received, Yours Obediently Henry Brown. C. Walton Esqr".