IDENTIFICATION
Bibliographic InformationAUTHORIZATION
CONDITION AND DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
Binding
This is a case binding with a full, embossed cloth cover that is a dark ultramarine blue, or was at the time of publishing, as seen from cloth on front of case and fore-edge squares. The title is stamped in gold over the spine. The cloth is abraded and unevenly stained on both sides, at the corners and is also split over the caps. Case-to-text attachment is good on the back hinge, but tenuous on the front where the hinge has abraded and the exposed textile lining has split.Textblock
The textblock has a moderate round with shallow, hammer-backed shoulders, and is sewn all-along with linen thread, on sawn-in cords. The paper used for the text is a cream-colored, machine-made wove paper of about #70, printed with black printer's ink. This paper has a slightly coarse tooth. There is a visible type impression. Throughout the text there are multiple instances of foxing, tide lines, discoloration, stains and black spots, which may be soot or (inactive) mold damage. There is a frontispiece illustration that has some tissue interleaving with image offset and foxing spots. Those engraved illustrations accompanying the main text are printed on a different, darker paper that is more brittle. One of the engravings has detached from the textblock. The single-folio endpapers are yellow, and there is an inscription of "60" in red ink over graphite, followed by "L.N. Lincoln" and another word below it, on the upper left corner on the front pastedown. Overall, the text has not split completely but is quite vulnerable to splitting and loose in places.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Before Treatment: Digital images in ambient light.
After Treatment: Digital images in ambient light.
TREATMENT PROPOSAL
- Clean spine of old linings, using a methyl cellulose poltice.
- Apply new kozo and textile linings on spine.
- Resew any loose sections if needed through cloth lining.
- Remove brittle paper spine inlay from inside of case.
- Reinforce cap at head with toned moriki tissue and Lascaux 498 adhesive.
- Apply hollow tube (one-off, two on) of toned moriki tissue.
- Re-case book using original case.
- Tip on original endpapers.
- Tip in loose engraved illustration.
- Flatten and mend interleaving for frontispiece.
- Re-adhere loose pieces of cloth at corners and edges of boards.
TREATMENT PERFORMED
Materials Used:
- Cleaned spine of old linings, using a 2.5% methyl cellulose poultice.
- Applied new kozo lining with wheat-starch paste and a new arrow cotton textile lining with PVA on spine.
- Removed brittle paper spine inlay from inside of case using a microspatula.
- Reinforced cap at head with moriki tissue toned with Golden acrylics and Lascaux 498 adhesive.
- Created a hollow tube (one-off, two on) of moriki tissue toned with Golden acrylics. Adhered the tube to the spine using PVA.
- Re-cased book using original case and wheat-starch paste.
- Tipped on original endpapers with wheat-starch paste.
- Re-adhered remnants of original conjugate endpaper to edge of the verso board.
- Tipped in loose engraved illustration with wheat-starch paste.
- Flattened and mended interleaving for frontispiece using a tacking iron and heat-set tissue.
- Re-adhered loose pieces of cloth at corners and edges of boards using Lascaux 498.
- Methyl cellulose (MC) 2.5% dispersed in hot then cold distilled water (Fisher 4000 cps.)
- Precipitated wheat starch paste mixed 1:4 with distilled water, cooked 20 minutes (Colophon)
- Elvace PVAc 45675 (Poly vinyl acetate adhesive)
- Machine-made lightweight Kozo (Hiromi)
- Moriki Tissue (Hiromi)
- Golden Acrylics
- Mylar
- Aero Linen
- Lascaux 498