TREATMENT REPORT

Conservator: Patrick Layton
Date: 16/11/2016
Title: The Latter-Day Saints Psalmody
Owner: Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library
Description: Book bound in brown cloth and leather
Dimensions (w x h x d): 155x210x25 mm

Condition Report

• Sewing broken
• Spine detached from boards
• Signature torn fully

Completed Treatment

• Took sewing apart
• Repaired torn signature using thinned wheat starch paste on scarf tears
• Guarded spine folds (Japanese paper and paste)
• Resewed book together using undyed linen thread
• Lifted endsheets and adhered airplane cotton to remake the case
• Treated Japanese tissue with Methylcellulose to reduce the feathering
• Lifted cloth to attach toned Japanese paper to reattach the spine
• Added Renaissance Wax to toned tissue to replicate the leather look

Changes I would make now:
I would trim up the loose threads that are seen, this project was on a librarians private book so I worked to their personal preference for the repair.