CARING FOR TREASURED BOOKS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 82, 6 April 1929, Page 16 (Supplement)

CARING FOR TREASURED BOOKS

(By C. Romannc-James), Books, like good friends, must be cherished, When a volume loses a leaf, or has a broken cover, sec that th(> damage is repaired without delay, for only thus will you save it from the rubbish heap or the rummage s’ile. A tuudi Lot. in its first youth is like ly to have some pages or illustrations lorn ur loosened. Die best medium for repairing such damage is transparent adhesive tape. Moistened, cut io the length of the page, and folded, this should be stuck to the in.ado edge of the loose page and to that of the page next to it. Torn pages arc repaired with similar tape. To clean the ordinary canvas or linen bound book, wring a clean duster in i.i.i waler anti rub me cover briskly, drying it at once with a dry rubber. To dean soiled pages, cut a fairly thick piece of new bread with the ciust on and rub lh e paper carefully with this, working in a downward Perhaps the cover of your favourite book is the worse for wear. Take a piece of soft canvas and some glue and join the torn pieces together again. Be careful to allow sufficient space between lhe buck and the sides, so that the book will close property and not be too stiff. You have now to Jix the cover to the book, and the simplest way to do this is to use adhoive tape, warmed, well pressed and smoothed, to join the cover and lhe first and last pages of the volume. Leather covers may be preserved ami cleaned by rubbing in a minute quantity of sweet oil.