Book Repair and Restoration

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Book Repair and Restoration, by Mitchell BuckThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Book Repair and RestorationAuthor: Mitchell BuckRelease Date: April 21, 2010 [EBook #32074]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOOK REPAIR AND RESTORATION ***Produced by Walt Farrell and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet Archive/American Libraries.)BOOK REPAIR AND RESTORATION Only a thousand copies of this book are printed and type distributed. Larger ImageINLAID LEVANT BINDING BOOK REPAIRAND RESTORATION A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONSFOR BIBLIOPHILES Including some Translated SelectionsfromEssai sur l’art de Restaurer les Estampes et les Livres,par A. Bonnardot, Paris 1858 ByMITCHELL S. BUCKAuthor of “Syrinx,” “Ephemera,” “The Songs of Phryne,”Translator of “Lucian’s Dialogues of the Hetaerai,” etc. Philadelphia NICHOLAS L. BROWN MCMXVIII Copyright, 1918By Nicholas L. Brown Printed July 1918 FOREWORDThe following chapters contain suggestions partly gathered from the experience of others and partly evolved formyself in caring for my own books. Although many ...