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.)
Edition includes author's gift inscription, "From Fannie".
This edition contains four additional tipped-in poems by the book's author. Poems appear to be cut from various newspapers of the period. Signature by book's owner located on title page.
This edition has a gift inscription by author John Jay Chapman, "Miss Goodale from John Jay Chapman Merry Xmas 1914."
This edition includes a gift inscription by author Rev. J.A. Davis, "To Rev. A. G. Russell with the warmest regards of the author J.A. Davis."
This edition includes an author's inscription, "with the regards of J.T. Fields."
This edition includes an author's inscription, "Very true and faithful Alice Brown. June 25, 1916."
This edition includes author Katharine Lee Bates' gift inscription, "This grave work is presented, at request, to Mildred C. Smith, president of the Wellerby Graduate Club, with Christmas Love from K.L.B. 1916."
Portovenere postcard glued on endpaper (loose from book) with marginalia on postcard, laid in "The poetical works of Lord Byron : with copious illustrative notes, and a memoir of his life."
Author's gift inscription, "To W. C. Hazlitt Esq with kind regards, from Alexr Ireland," with tipped-in review of the book.
This edition includes a bookmark titled, "'The All-in Policy' for House-owners"; an advertisement for The British Dominions General Insurance Company, c. 1916-1924.