OP
OP
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Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Thanks everyone for your thoughts, even @Drago .
After much cogitation, confusion, consultation, contention, confliction, consideration, contemplation and coffee, I've reached the conclusion that conservation is the preferred option. Did I mention my 1857 Thesaurus? Only kidding.
The book doesn't merit a professional rebinding, lacking pages from the front. Apart from anything else, I'm a skinflint but also a confirmed jack-of-many-trades DIYer, so I've bought some very reasonably priced acid-free repair tapes from the vintage paper company (P-tape for worn/torn maps, P90-tape to help re-attach front and back boards, which I'll probably also stitch into place, and T-tape to reinforce the spine).Their website is abominably designed, by the way - it's very difficult to find these tapes unless you know they're there. It won't be pretty, but the book will be usable. So far I've mended a tear in the Spain & Portugal map and partially repaired the severely damaged England & Wales map - proceeding with the utmost care.
The maps will remain in situ, but I'll photograph them so that they can be seen in their full eccentric glory without further wear and tear - thanks @Elswick Cotterpin for your excellent suggestion. The gazetteer is full of delights, no Australia but entries for 'Wales,New South', 'Holland, New', Botany Bay and Sydney Cove, and Anthony Van Diemen's Land apparently a SE promontory of the mainland; surely Tasmania had already been recognised as an island by 1801? Alphabetically, I & J, and U & V are used interchangeably. I've taken advantage of the recent sunshine to take a few hasty pics, but they're not top quality, with one hand stretching the maps and the other pressing the button. I'll try to be more professional for the record shots. Here's a handful of the more interesting ones.
After much cogitation, confusion, consultation, contention, confliction, consideration, contemplation and coffee, I've reached the conclusion that conservation is the preferred option. Did I mention my 1857 Thesaurus? Only kidding.
The book doesn't merit a professional rebinding, lacking pages from the front. Apart from anything else, I'm a skinflint but also a confirmed jack-of-many-trades DIYer, so I've bought some very reasonably priced acid-free repair tapes from the vintage paper company (P-tape for worn/torn maps, P90-tape to help re-attach front and back boards, which I'll probably also stitch into place, and T-tape to reinforce the spine).Their website is abominably designed, by the way - it's very difficult to find these tapes unless you know they're there. It won't be pretty, but the book will be usable. So far I've mended a tear in the Spain & Portugal map and partially repaired the severely damaged England & Wales map - proceeding with the utmost care.
The maps will remain in situ, but I'll photograph them so that they can be seen in their full eccentric glory without further wear and tear - thanks @Elswick Cotterpin for your excellent suggestion. The gazetteer is full of delights, no Australia but entries for 'Wales,New South', 'Holland, New', Botany Bay and Sydney Cove, and Anthony Van Diemen's Land apparently a SE promontory of the mainland; surely Tasmania had already been recognised as an island by 1801? Alphabetically, I & J, and U & V are used interchangeably. I've taken advantage of the recent sunshine to take a few hasty pics, but they're not top quality, with one hand stretching the maps and the other pressing the button. I'll try to be more professional for the record shots. Here's a handful of the more interesting ones.
Stop!!!!
(or more likely 
)
)complete history and records book
Accy junior who was about 6 year old at the time had done it thinking it was a colouring book.
