Book Conservation
This is a pretty handy chart if you are considering purchasing a litho stone, or even picking one up to move around. For example, a 16 x 12 inch stone weights 43 pounds per inch of thickness. This was pasted onto the inner face of the front board of Printing and its Accessories from Massy College. Another reminder that many printed books contain unique, owner added paratextual information.
Monday, October 26, 2015 6-8pm.
CBBAG Bindery, Suite 207, 80 Ward St., Toronto
This is a free event open to the public, but you must RSVP: cabbage.gta AT gmail DOT com
I will demonstrate the making of a delrin folder using simple hand tools: a hacksaw, a file, a scraper, and micron-graded sanding sponges. Attendees should bring their favorite tool and be prepared to discuss it. Also bring a tool that doesn’t work or you would like to alter, we can brain storm options as a group. The evening will conclude with a pot luck meal, I’ve already heard rumors of chili. Yum!
Pulled to Pieces: Life as an Independent Book Conservator
October 21, 2015. 4:15 pm.
Faculty of Information, ischool, 140 St. George St., Rm 728
University of Toronto, Canada.
In this fast paced illustrated lecture, Jeff Peachey will discuss the variety of book related activities he is engaged in as a New York City based independent book conservator. This includes pretending to be an actor playing a bookbinder in a Samsung Galaxy Note TV advertisement, inventing the Peachey Board Slotting Machine, manufacturing leather paring knives and other hand-tools for the bookbinders, teaching, blogging, conducting research, and providing book conservation treatments for individuals and institutions.
Peachey is Professional Associate in the American Institute for Conservation, has served as Chair of the Conservators In Private Practice, was recently awarded a fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (Italy) and is currently the Patricia Fleming Visiting Fellow in Bibliography and Book History at the University of Toronto. His most recent publication is “Beating, Rolling and Pressing: The Compression of Signatures in Bookbinding Prior to Sewing” in Suave Mechanicals: Essays in the History of Bookbinding, The Legacy Press, 2013. Currently he is researching the progressive mechanization of book structures in the early nineteenth century.
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