CONSERVATION
RESTORATION
Multi Chamber Slipcase.
Each Original Volume protected within Identifying decorative Leather compartments.
Two-Chamber Slipcases
AFTER Saving orginal Sides Spine and Title Labels
BEFORE Spines torn at the hinges, Broken into pieces
Calfskin Slipcase to hold set of Dust Jacketed complete set as-published, with accompanying Digital version housed in companion folio. Each dust jacket protected with mylar.
Bespoke acid=free clamshell with curved spine and 23kt gold tooled leather labels,
1739 First Edition -- Leather spine was completely missing. Sewing damaged in previous mends, was rewoven into original cords. New leather spine was created from restoration book-calf, and hand-dyed and patinated to sympathetically reattached the original front and rear covers, matching tone and luster of the original portion of the binding. A new leather title label, was hand stamped in 23kt gold, inspired by the original.
Fine Goatskin clamshell for Untouched First Edition.
Original Dust Jacket wrapped in Mylar
BEFORE
AFTER
Several Labels
were saved
New Vegetable Tanned full Calf bindings
Hand tooled covers and spines
Dachau Album - 5 Year Project
Conservation, Restoration, Scanning, Printing, Bookbinding
5 Year Project to restore original album, disassemble album, flat hand place scan 600dpi, source authentic acid free German Paper, hand patina pages and leather to match original.
Create exact match of watercolor drawings and 151 pages of photograph snapshots. Create embroidery materials. Replicate jewelry pin and prisoner uniform remnants for front cover corners. Hand bind new Leather Covers, and hand sew with Irish linen cord, the Original artifact binding, and hand sew sets of 5 replica albums with hand edged matching diamond dimensional sides. Prepare original and first replica for the Library of Congress. See Blog Post Tab above
M.K. Gandhi Indian First Edition
Very Fragile. Original covers housed in Mylar jackets, then placed within bespoke cavities of the two-compartment, two-chamber acid free slipcase, which supports and stabilizes the frail Spines, while permitting viewing their spines, without handling.
Titled in 23 kt Gold on the slipcase.
Only remnants of the original spines existed,
requiring the recreation
from the fragments for this restorative treatment.
Utilizing vegetable tanned calfskins, the new spines were dyed, textured and patinaed,
to blend with the original and preserved front and back covers, sympathetically.
Labels for volumes 3 and 4, are original, the others were replicated to complete the set.
In this instance, brass dies were created to accomplish the fine recreation of the structurally sound bindings, to protect the first edition pages within,
and permit confident handling. This approach results in pleasurable reading from the edition.