Understanding and caring for bookbindings
Preservation Advisory Centre training day
20 April 2010
British Library Centre for Conservation, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
This one day course is themed around the understanding the significance of
bookbindings. Books are much more than the text they contain; their complex
structures and methods of production have evolved over time. Recognising
features of bindings and understanding the structure of the book can reveal
significant bibliographic information.
Participants will learn why bookbindings are important and the information they
can reveal; how to recognise historic bindings; how to handle different types
of binding structures and the use of appropriate protective enclosures; how to
describe bindings; and conservation options for bookbindings.
Programme
10.00 Introductions and welcome
10.15 Binding types and structures, and their significance (David Pearson,
Guildhall Library)
11.45 Break
12.00 Handling bindings: the use of supports and protective enclosures (Sarah
Hamlyn, British Library)
12.45 Discussion and questions
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Describing bindings (Karen Limper-Hertz, British Library)
14.25 The conservation of bookbindings (Roswitha Ketzer, British Library)
15.25 Break
15.40 Tour of the Centre for Conservation
16.00 End
Cost £95 + VAT (including lunch and refreshments)
To register, please complete the form at www.bl.uk/npo/bookbindings.html
Caroline Peach
Preservation Advisory Centre
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
United Kingdom
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