Limp vellum binding : and its potential as a conservation type structure for the rebinding of early printed books / Christopher Clarkson.
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Book
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Publication Year
1982
Publisher
Red Gull Press, United Kingdom
Pages
24 pages
Subject
Books -- Conservation and restoration
Abstract
A break with nineteenth and twentieth century rebinding attitudes and practices. Limp vellum bindings have the potential of satisfying many conservation principles, as non-adhesive structures they provide an opportunity for disassembly, maintenance and re-assembly, with little or no damage to the text-block.
This essay is a corrected, but not updated, text of a paper read at the ICOM Committee for Conservation 4th Triennial Meeting, at Venice in 1975.
This essay is a corrected, but not updated, text of a paper read at the ICOM Committee for Conservation 4th Triennial Meeting, at Venice in 1975.
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