“On the evils of oversewing” Oversewing is a “repair” technique used by commercial binderies (and now fortunately out of fashion), but it also was used a primary sewing structure back in the day as well. What you’re looking at is an example of the former, where a modern book has its spine chopped off, and […]
Recase with Oxford hollow.
A really good example of a terrible cover-up job by a patron. We didn’t fall for it. Please note that they have colored in, with colored pencils, the filled-in area AND the roughed-up original boards. Also, the icing on the cake…the title of this book is “Too Big to Fail”.
Here is a book a patron tried to repair…as if we wouldn’t notice the “fix”. Their dog ate the corner of this book, then they tried to “fix” it by gluing a piece of board into the hole and coloring over it with colored pencils. Our eagle-eyed circulation staff caught it, however, and the book was […]