Are your pages torn, eaten by vermin,
ripped into pieces or crumbling with age and neglect?
Have they been battered, creased, dog eared, scribbled in
with biro, crayon, ink, even sellotape water stains foxing or
library stamps?
They said it wasn't possible...............
Book restoration taken to an art form.
You wouldn't think it was the same page would you?
But we can assure you it is.
Knitting fibres together and invisible mending is painstaking but can be very rewarding
Bookbinding and Remove Foxing:
Foxing is a form of mildew which attacks the wood content of the paper. Some 18th, 19th Century and modern papers are made from "Chemical wood pulp" and "Esparto grass" as opposed to "Mechanical wood pulp", as this example of a Dickens vignette title page shows.
The mildew is attracted to and accellerated by the (F)errous (Ox)ide, (iron), one of the chemicals in the paper.
Period Fine Bindings have developed an entirely new aqueous formula which neutralises the mildew and removes the stain completely without altering the integrity of the paper or ink.
Clean as a whistle whilst preserving the integrity of the paper.
Textile strength tests have shown that the paper fibres have not altered in any way, which means the page will bend and "dog ear" without snapping. The oxidation in the ink has been removed leaving a crisp clean original print. Whilst the mildew spore that causes the "foxing"
has been neutralised.
Bookbinding, Foxing Removal and Paper Restoration:
Bookbinding and Removing Ink Stains:
Somebody sadly spilt ink on this edition of Cook's Voyages.
The ink had penetrated through every page, an immense amount of page restoration was needed. Indeed if it were possible?
The ink was first analysed to determine it's properties and a formula was created for it's removal and then each page carefully 're-sized'.
Bookbinding and Page Restoration:
...And even though it had soaked all the way through and dried through the ages, Paul managed to restore this beautiful piece to its original condition...
without any compromise to the integrity of the ink or the paper.
40 pages with a major ink stain and corners missing
And what about the missing bits can they be replaced?
catchword and the last part of the text in the commentry
Missing bits of 17thC woodcuts
page tears re-joined
Paper and Page Restoration:
A 1st edition, 1st issue Pickwick Papers.
Only 400 1st issue plates were printed
before the illustrator, R.Seymore committed
suicide "under circumstances of a very
distressing nature", leaving 2 unfinished
plates before publication.
This plate is called "Mr Pickwick in the Pound"
and the "points" of issue are of course,
the two donkeys. You can see the donkeys
a little better in the restored plate below.
Period Fine Bindings
Email: Paul Tronson,
Master Bookbinder
with your queries at:
Next Page Book binding & Period Fine Bindings
periodfinebindings@googlemail.com
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