Family Bible Restoration/Conservation

This project required Restoring/Conserving a large leather Heirloom Family Bible. The spine was detached from the cover but otherwise in pretty good shape. I did a leather restoration/conservation reback which includes the following process. Dismantling the cover and spine. Removing the fly leaf marbled endsheet. Cleaning the spine. Adding new cloth hinges. Relining the spine with new headbands, mull, and a hollow back spine. Rebacking the spine with new leather. Putting up the hinges, relaying the fly leaf, and relaying the original spine.
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Leather Conservation Reback

History of Nebraska, illustrated, 1882. This is a large binding that required a great deal of work. The leather spine was torn and the cloth boards were quite damaged. I did a Leather Conservation Reback and cosmetic repairs to the cloth boards and leather corners. The finished Binding came out very nicely.
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Full Leather Fine Binding

This project consists of removing a cloth cover and rebinding the book with a new full leather fine binding with raised bands and 22k hand gold tooling.
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Wizard of Oz Cloth Conservation Reback

I have been receiving alot of children's books recently for conservation/restoration. They are usually in terrible shape. This one wasn't too bad. I re-rounded the spine with strong hinges, relined the spine, fresh cloth hinges to match cloth cover, rebacked the spine and relayed the original spine. Good to go for a few more generations.
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