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Modigliani

The paper dust jacket cover was very discoloured through dirt. The spine piece of the dust jacket is split along the front shoulder and is missing a section at the top of the spine.

The spine of the book is visible where the dust jacket is missing areas. You can see the original spine lining paper and adhesives are cracking.

Image shows a book showing the front board and inside of the front dust jacket cover. The board is very brown and discoloured passing the discolouration over to the dust jacket

Image shows the construction of a wrapper which wraps around the board of the book around the spine edge. It is made up of two sheets of buffered archival paper which has tabs cut out that pass around the spine edge of the board to the other side of the board. Then the tabs are woven into slots in the corresponding wrapper.

The dust jacket lies opened flat face up. A layer of thin Japanese paper has been adhered from the inside to reattach the two sides of the cover.

The dust jacket is now shown in place around the text block of the book.

The image shows a view of the finished book from the bottom edge. You can see the rough cut edges of the books pages and the newly repaired dust jacket wrapped around the book.

The image shows the finished dust jacket after treatment. The losses have been infilled with toned Japanese paper so that it blends in with the original paper.

Click here to see the blog post about this treatment.

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