Facsimile title page. Replace marbled endpaper
This attractively-bound children’s novel from the early 19th century had like many old children’s books, seen better days after years of ‘enthusiastic’ use by previous young owners.
Facsimiles
Spine restoration & facsimile page. 1626 Ovid
This article is about the spine restoration and creation of facsimile pages on a 1626 edition on Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Over December, I’ve been working on a fairly collectable, but slightly bereft copy of Ovid’s Metamorphosis dating from 1626. This copy had been rebound in the early 19th century with a fairly unnatractive spine. The front […]
Facsimile page to replace a lost text page
This article is on the creation of a facsimile page to replace a missing page in a book. Missing pages Over the passage of time, it’s not unusual for the odd page or two to become detached in a book. As long as the detached page(s) is still present, it is relatively straightforward to re-insert […]