Useful books, for weakly puppies and dainty feeders. (Ads in the back of a 19th century book.)
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The scars of oversewing and a Demco hinge repair. I seem to rescue one of these previously-repaired books about once a month. Sometimes the original sewing is completely gone, hence the stab-sewing, but in many cases it was completely fine. This kind of side-sewing is particularly bad for books with brittle paper, as the paper’s […]
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Cover of an Arabic (?) language book. If you can translate the title, let me know! I foolishly forgot to write down the call number when I took the photo.
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Earrings made from parchment. Yeah, real parchment, like the stuff medieval books were written on!
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From “Leather for Libraries”, 1905. Read it online!
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Original collage by me. This was a page that was cut out of a library book by a patron, which was replaced by us.
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From Reverend O’Conor’s “Facts About Bookworms”. New York, 1898.
“If you’ve cracked the spine, don’t make a fuss, no need to whine, just give it to us. Burma Shave.” “When you’re in Preservation, just take a look, it might be quite broken, but we’ve got your book. Burma shave”
conservethis: Roses are red Copy-pencil is blue If you wash without testing, A naughty conservator is you! Just in case you missed it yesterday…
Roses are red,Violets are blue,We pray the brown stain on this book,Was just chocolate fondue! Roses are red,Violets are blue,There’s a white stain on this page:We sure hope it was just a roux!