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.)
- 1 English
- 1 Public
- Dramatists -- English
- 1 Owner's Inscription
- 1 Shakespeare, William
- Author-signed copy of Collected verses Violet Fane (1880)
- Author-signed copy of Dulce cor: being the poems of Ford Berêton [i.e. S. Crockett] S. R. Crockett (Samuel Rutherford), 1859-1914 (1886)
- Illustrator's flat signature in The novels and stories of Richard Harding Davis
- Author's tipped in obituary in Literary and social silhouettes
- Author's gift inscription in The Illini: A Story of the Prairies
This edition includes an owner's inscription, "Helen Runyan, October 1905, Vassar College".
- Contributors
- Bagehot, Walter, Looser, Devoney
- Created Date
- 2017-03-15