TREATMENT EXAMPLES

Bibliographic Information

Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a brief view of the Civil War. Illustrated with graphic pictures by Frederic Remington and other eminent artists. 1896.

http://griffin.wsu.edu/search/a?SEARCH=miles%2C+nelson

 

Description/Treatment Brief

Clothbound. Textblock sound, separating from case. Front flyleaves detached. Retaining of original endpapers. Recasing into original case.

 

Materials used

combination paste s. adhesives
mixture s. adhesives
wheat starch paste s. adhesives
Colored japanese paper
Kizukishi

NARRATIVE

Condition/Description

Case

Covering material brown cloth; cloth lightly worn at head, tail, along hinges ; .
Front cover elaborately stamped with text and images in three colors (gold, silver, black).

Spine

Text and image in gold; ( shows the repaired volume, no pre-treatment picture of cover; sorry, wrong exposure)

Frontboard separated from textblock; backboard held on by super; part of the pastedown torn away along board edge .

Textblock

Machine sewn . Fly leaves: one colored one white flyleaf tipped together; front tipped flyleaves separated from textblock.

Endbands

Made endbands; brown cloth over cord. Cloth torn several times parallel to spine.

Comment

Although the cloth along spine area is worn , the case is set aside and left intact. If the repaired textblock still fits comfortably into its case, a strip of colored japanese paper may suffice to reinforce the cloth from inside the case.

Sewing of textblock is sound. CMR is used for endsheet repair and casing in.

Treatment/Description

Thick wheat starch paste is used as poultice to remove old linings and glue. Combination paste is used to bond original materials. Mixture is used for second linings. To achieve a tight bond each lining is stippled to the spine with a stiff brush and set aside to dry. The first spine lining is adhered after the flange of the white flyleaf has been adhered to the spine of the text block. s.also spine linings

Textblock

Removed endbands; back flyleaves. Cleaned spine removing old paper lining super and glue . Aligned pages and reshaped spine while still moist. Applied combination paste to consolidate text block.

Separated colored flyleaves from adjoining white flyleaves. Hinged white flyleaves with Kizukishi; adhered flanges to spine of textblock .

1^st spine lining Kizukishi (for details about spine lining s. also spine linings), length of textblock, width in excess of spine by 20mm . Flange to be adhered to the colored flyleaf at a later time. Adhered flanges of prepared colored flyleaves to spine of textblock . The colored free hinge will be inserted underneath the original pastedown.

Reapplied repaired original endbands .

2^nd spine lining muslin, length to fit between endbands, width in excess of spine by 20mm ;

3^rd spine lining Kizukishi, width of spine, length of textblock .

Case

Removed old spine stiffener. Lifted pastedown along board edges, wide enough to accommodate cloth hinge and hinge of flyleaf. Trimmed back pastedown by 2mm from board edge. Cut bookcloth turn-ins perpendicularly to spine, 15mm from board edge; opened turn ins. Separated bookcloth from boards to the point of cut turn ins .

Prepared strip of colored japanese paper length of boards plus turn-ins, wide enough to extend onto the boards to support the weakened hinge area.

Applied combination paste to outside of strip, placed it in position between cloth cover and board. Rubbed down from both sides through a protective piece of paper. . Adhered reinforced cloth to board. Attached spine stiffener (Mohawk superfine, textweight) width of spine length of boards . Readhered turn-ins .

Casing in

Inner (cloth) hinge and colored free hinge positioned underneath pastedown. In back, repositioned torn away parts of pastedown ,.