The Story-Teller
John Harris, 1825
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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.
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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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