{"id":4816,"date":"2014-01-06T11:35:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2014-12-04T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:24:58","slug":"rare-book-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=4816","title":{"rendered":"Rare Book Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Mason University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) was the proud recipient in December 2012 of an NEH Preservation Assistance grant.\u00a0 Grant activities included working with a preservation consultant to assess preservation of collections here, creating a preservation plan, and prioritizing preservation actions.\u00a0 We identified one important priority as working with a conservator to repair damaged rare books.\u00a0 Conservation for rare books in SC&A now occurs routinely to make damaged books usable again. In the case of the 1820 Richmond imprint of the Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830<\/i><\/a>, our copy had a mutilated spine and the entire cover was separated from the text block as you see in the \u201cbefore\u201d photographs below. Conservation, using reversible materials and professional techniques, has resulted in a new spine created from compatibly colored and very strong Japanese paper. Meanwhile, the torn joints have been repaired, also using Japanese paper colored to match the beautiful original marbled end sheets.<\/p>\n

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Image of “Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830” before conservation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Image of “Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830” after conservation.<\/p><\/div>\n

Another, more modern book, the 1925 publication, The Building of Satellite Towns<\/i><\/a>, had torn hinges. The conservator was able to save part of the original spine this time by adhering it to the spine replacement. The torn joints were repaired by replacing the old end sheets with compatibly colored, but new, acid-free end sheets. Note that the conservator saved the book seller\u2019s stamp in the lower right hand corner of the pastedown. Working with conservators to repair books in Special Collections & Archives is part of our role as good stewards of these valuable research collections.<\/p>\n

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Image on the left shows spine damage on “The Building of Satellite Towns.” The image on the right shows the inside cover after conservation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Building of Satellite Towns\u201d spine after conservation.<\/p><\/div>\n

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George Mason University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) was the proud recipient in December 2012 of an NEH Preservation Assistance grant.\u00a0 Grant activities included working with a preservation consultant to assess preservation of collections here, creating a preservation plan, and prioritizing preservation actions.\u00a0 We identified one important priority as working with a conservator to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,121,299],"tags":[16,65],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rare-books-2","category-scrc-picks","category-virginiana","tag-conservation","tag-rare-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-1fG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9579,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=9579","url_meta":{"origin":4816,"position":0},"title":"Preservation and Conservation at Work","author":"Amanda Menjivar","date":"June 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This post was originally written for the George Mason University Libraries' news blog, which you can find here. 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