by Elodie Leveque & Louise O’Connor, Conservation Conservators love knowing how a book was put together, and recently, we had the opportunity to examine a very interesting item. Despite being in good condition, the book needed some minor conservation treatment. But first, by closely examining the binding and the inner structure normally hidden from our […]
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1669,
Anton Bruodinus,
Binding,
Case,
Conservation,
Conservators,
Core,
Cover flaps,
Cross-over beading,
Elodie Leveque,
Fr. Anthony Broidin,
Head,
Headbands,
Hygroscopic,
Initial letter,
Irish College,
Limp vellum,
Linen thread,
Louise O'Connor,
Martyrdom,
Octavo,
Pastedown,
Plant-fibre Cords,
Prague,
Propugnaculum Catholicæ Veritatis,
Tail,
Textblock,
Vellum
by Inez J Fletcher, Cataloguer & Director of Irish ISSN Centre Cataloguers come across a very wide variety of publications in the course of their regular work, but I mostly catalogue contemporary periodicals. However, recently I was asked to catalogue a run of eight volumes for the period January 1889 to December 1892 of The […]
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Arsenic,
Beeswax,
British and Colonial Druggist,
Cascara,
Cataloguing,
Clanbrassil Street,
Cough Konckerer,
Director of Irish ISSN Centre,
Dr. Krugener's Patent Book Camera,
Dynamite,
Engravings,
Inez J Fletcher,
Journals,
Kilner Glass,
Mary Street,
Messrs. M & C Bracken,
Mincing Lane,
Opium,
Parcel Detective Camera,
Periodicals,
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland,
Poison,
Rhubarb,
Rotunda,
Samuel Boyd
by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the final phase of the project, which will run to the end of 2011, and I thought that readers might be interested […]
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Books,
British Museum,
Charles Mackay,
Clean Sweep,
Cleaning,
Conservation,
Dr. Jaspar Robert Joly,
Geoffrey Gambado,
Joly Collection,
Nikki Ralston,
Projects,
R.D.S.,
Rare book team,
Rare books,
René Descartes,
Royal Dublin Society,
Tours,
Trustees' Room,
Watts Phillips
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