Monday, June 28, 2010

I can fix this


Required reading for my Rare Book School class The American Book in the Industrial Era 1820-1940

It is in kind of rough shape, detached boards, spine torn at the joints, housed in a phase box...








but I can fix this...


















with new end sheets, spine linings and a new cloth spine under the original.

















how often do books come back to the circulation desk looking better than when they were checked out? ; )



2 comments:

rosemary said...

Well done!

drastician said...

I'm always tempted to do that, too.