✒ The Marginalia ✒

Reader's marks, annotations, and traces across centuries

Today's Page Discover Famous Marginalia Margin Symbols Shakespeare About

📖 Marginalia for: wanderer

📖 A detective fiction

"The Hound of the Baskervilles"

19th century · Annotated by a monastery librarian

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                                     │
│  ...The quality of mercy...                  │
│  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                       │
│                                              § ◦ │
│  ...and so the passage continues, with the         │
│  reader's childish block letters filling the margins...    │
│                                                     │
│  ├─────────────────────────────────┤   "important" "false" "comfort"  │
│  │  [text block]  [text block]    │                │
│  │  [text block]  [text block]    │                │
│  └─────────────────────────────────┘                │
│                                                     │
│                                         [page 355] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
        

✒ The Reader's Hand

"The author seems to have known me personally."

📍 Physical Trace

Between pages 355 and 356: traces of tobacco ash

📜 Front Matter Inscription

"In memory of"

— the summer we met

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