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: Johnson, Samuel
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 includes two flat signatures of William Morris, one is dated "8th of June 1802".