Book-cloth Restoration

Text Box: Restore your favorite childhood book for your children or grandchildren.

This is an example of preserving the original spine and replacing it over a new book-cloth spine that is blended into the covers.  I also brightened the faded spine to match the cover by carefully applying an acrylic wash in between the gold stamping. The front cover is the original color and I only brought  up the sun-faded color of the spine.

Spine Brightening:

When you can’t replace it...

Remove Library Marks and various Stickers: (I will only  do this work on valid ex-library books.)

Aesthetic Restoration of Damaged Covers:

Herman Melville’s Typee

World of Chance

Vanity Fair

Paper Cover Restoration

New Book-cloth Spine with Foil Stamping

This is an example of the restoration of the inner hinge of a first edition of  The Wizard of Oz where the illustration is of paramount importance.   

Marine Mamallia and American Whale Fishery by Scammon

Inner Hinges:
Text Box: E-mail: sophia@ bookrestoration.org