This document was cleaned, flattened, mended, deacidified and scanned. Here is a before of the original and an after of the corrected digital scan. Working at 600 dpi allows you to get down to where pen strokes and tears are seemingly a half inch wide!
Hit his old cloth bound book is now ready for rebuilding the spine and rebacking. Not too much page repair and cosmetics will be simple.
Tested more than a few solvents before cleaning this painting. After all was done it cleaned up nicely. Now it’s drying with a coat of damar varnish.
During the 1890s South Dakota organized a regiment to go to war. The ephemera and photos of the album do well in showing that experience. I also made an ePub book of the albums scans.
Click on the image to see a monstrous view of the bindery!
Happy New Year to my wonderful clients and to you who I have not yet met. And a big thanks to Ron Cooper for this great shot!
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Bookbinder's Dressing is my formulation of of an ancient recipe handed down from master to apprentice for over 500 hundred years. I make this in small batches and will mail it the same day your order is received.
-Max Marbles
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