The Story-Teller

John Harris, 1825

    • Surface dirt on text block throughout.

    • Heavily abraded sewing supports and sewing.

    • Absent spine and hollow.

    • Detached covers with loose, split endsheets.

    • Abraded cover.

    • Material loss on inner front page.

    • Manuscript on endsheets.

    • Dry surface cleaning of textblock.

    • Guarded sections with tinted Japanese tissue.

    • Mended tears with Japanese tissue.

    • Resewed text block with all along websticth.

    • Lined spine with tissue, created overlong liner.

    • Created new hollow with lightweight usagami tissue.

    • Created new paper spine from Moriki that was tinted to match original cloth and attached to textblock.

    • Reattached boards with overlong liner under original paste down.

    • Consolidate abraded boards with methyl cellulose and tinted usagami.

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