
they may be new covered for a Penny, an Advantage that can not be obtained in Leather.St Paul's Church-yard, Sept 22, 1774. "The Purchasers of Books bound in the Vellum manner are desired to observe, that they are sewed much better than the Books which are bound in Leather open easier at the Back. Printed label on upper pastedown explains the experimental use of vellum spine. The original leather labels have been adhered onto the vellum spine.Ī custom made archival folding box board box has been made, for secondary protection.Click on the image to enlarge it.Click again for maximum magnificationĪll images Copyright the British Library Board unless stated in notes fieldīlue paper sides tooled with Mercantile Library Co in blind. Tie cords have been attached to the yap edge using natural bookbinding calf. The following morning the volume and cover have settled and are sitting flush with the text block.

To get round this the volume, with vellum attached was humidified in a chamber for around an hour before being happy that the vellum cover was suitable humidified, to climatise in situ overnight. With the vellum turn-ins going behind the spine and over the boards, was forcing a hinge, making the boards spring up. All one piece of vellum, no adhesive – limp vellum. Scores have been cut in each corner of the vellum, for exact cut vellum points can be inserted. A yap edge has been added to allow enough expansion whilst opening the volume, protecting the foredge and to attach ties. The vellum is attached to the text block, by going behind the spine and turn-ins over the board, allowing for enough overlap. All paper was adhered using the in-house paste.įive manilla templates were made before, to perfect each alteration and be sure of the accuracy and fit before cutting the vellum to size. Talk to your doctor if you have any other medical conditions, have drug or alcohol addiction, drink. The spine has been lined using Hosokawa Japaneses paper. The use of Valium may lead to dependence on the medicine. The boards were lined with somerset, and blotting paper externally to tone to a similar colour to the vellum, internally Gampi was used in attempt to bow the boards inwards a little. Internally the front fly leaf, with handover note required repair, so was removed, repaired using Udagmi, and tipped on the flyleaf and into the volume using 14% wheat starch / 3% methyl cellulose paste, which is the same paste used throughout any adhering treatments. The headcap band was no longer available, so a new one was made, sewn and attached to the head of the volume, using hemp cord and cream linen thread. The tailcap band requires re-attaching as the thread attaching it has given way, by re-attaching under kettle stitch using new unbleached cotton thread.
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The leather turn-ins are humidified using a poultice of methyl cellulose, after 30mins the turn-ins are releasing, which allows the full leather to be removed from the volume. Internally the pages are cleaned using a latex aerated sponge. After approximately 30mins the parchment is released, the same procedure is carried out on the other endpaper. To do this capillary matting was wetted out using tap water, sympatex is layed over the matting to allow the vapour through, which then humidifies the parchment.

The volume has been wrapped in polythene, to enable the parchment endpapers to be gently humidified, to release the animal hide glue. The front 2,4 pages are dirty from ingrained dirt, suggesting the case became detached at some stage in its history.ĩ2 parchment pages, attached to approx. Original, likely to have been bound in limp or case vellum binding. Corners of boards along bottom showing through boards.įront paper flyleaf is fragile, top 50mm torn along joint and loose, bottom 20mm torn, coming away from the spine and 10mm attached above damage and another 25mm section broken along joint. Headband is attached to the left of spine when looking at volumes spine.

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