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It's a mourning book ... with a xylographic title page, that is, a title page in which white lettering appears on a black background. But when the microfilm was being processed, someone clearly didn't believe what they were seeing and they assumed it was a mistake, that it should be black on white, and so they reversed the negative, producing a facsimile of a book that doesn't exist.
-- Sarah Werner, "where material book culture meets digital humanities." Wynken de Worde. http://sarahwerner.net/blog/index.php/2012/04/where-material-book-culture-meets-digital-humanities/
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