Interesting articles on preventive conservation, published by the Government of Canada - Basic requirements of preventive conservation. Practical preventive conservation advice for museum and gallery staff on the basic requirements in three key areas: building features, portable fittings and procedures. By Stefan Michalski, based on a section in “...Read more
The agents of deterioration identify 10 primary threats specific to heritage environments and encourage their prevention at the collections level first, by avoiding, blocking and detecting possible damage, and then by responding and treating damage. This integrated approach to conservation has also led to developments in risk assessment. -...Read more
AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND FORM OF THE BOOKS OF THE ANCIENTS; WITH A HISTORY OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING, FROM THE TIMES OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS TO THE PRESENT DAY; INTERSPERSED WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES TO MEN AND BOOKS OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES BY JOHN HANNETT There are three digitized versions of the book. They included all of them,...Read more
A COLLECTION OF FACSIMILES FROM EXAMPLES OF HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC BOOK-BINDING, ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF BINDING AS A BRANCH OF THE DECORATIVE ARTS BY BERNARD QUARITCH Originally issued in 11 parts with cover title: Bernard Quaritch’s facsimiles of choice examples of historical & artistic book-binding and of specimens of book-illumination,...Read more
