Book Conservation

  • Anderson and Reidell. Adhesive Pre-Coated Repair Materials .The Book and Paper Group Annual 28. 2009.
  • Bainbridge, A. Conservation of Books. Routledge 2023.
  • Barlee, R. Development of Archival Quality Leather (Revisited). Skin Deep. 43. 2017.
  • Dignard and Mason. Caring for leather, skin and fur. Canadian Conservation Institute 2018.
  • Dirksen, V. The Degradation and Conservation of Leather, Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies. 6-10,1991.
  • Dorning, D. The development of a testing method for assessing book joint repair. The Paper Conservator, 29:1, 2005, pp. 25-38.
  • Down et al. Adhesive testing at the Canadian Conservation Institute: An evaluation of selected poly(vinyl acetate) and acrylic adhesives.” Studies in Conservation 41. 1966, pp. 19-44.
  • Falcão and Araújo. Vegetable Tannins Used in the Manufacture of Historic Leathers. Molecules 23: 2018, pp 1-20.
  • Florian, M.E. The Mechanisms of Deterioration in Leather. In M. Kite and R. Thompson, eds., Conservation of Leather. Butterworth-Heinemann 2006, pp. 36–57.
  • Haines, B. Deterioration in Leather Bookbindings: Our Present State of Knowledge, British Leather Manufacturers Research Association 1977.
  • Knight, E. Assaying Klucel-G recipes, application methods in the surface consolidation of tanned bookbinding leathers. Poster presented at: Emergency! Preparing for disasters and confronting the unexpected in conservation. Joint 44th Annual Meeting and 42nd Annual Conference of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and the Canadian Association for Conservation (Association Canadienne pour la Conservation et la Restauration) (CAC-ACCR), May 11-18 2016; Montreal, Canada.
  • Larsen, R. The Chemical Degradation of Leather, CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry 62, no. 11, 2008, pp. 899–902.
  • Mahony and Pearlstein. Evaluation of Consolidants for the Treatment of Red Rot on Vegetable Tanned Leather. Poster presented at: Conscientious conservation – Sustainable choices in collection care. 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC); May 28-31 2014; San Francisco, CA.
  • Plenderleith, H. J. The Preservation of Leather Bookbindings. British Museum 1967.
  • Skinner et al. Modified Methods for Species Identification of Archeological Skin-based Objects: Dealing with Degradation and Improving Standards. In: Robinet,
    Laurianne, Carole Dignard, Theo Sturge (dir.). Proceedings of the 11th Interim Meeting of ICOM-CC Leather and Related Materials Working Group. 2010, pp.14-25.
  • Teper and Straw. A Survey of Current Leather Conservation Practices. Book and Paper Group Annual 30, 2011, pp.131-151.
  • Thomson, R. S. A history of leather processing from the medieval to the present time. In: Calnan, C. and Haines, B. (eds.) Leather: Its Composition and Changes with Time. Northampton: The Leather Conservation Center 1991, pp. 12–15.
  • Aubry et al. La sélection d’un cuir de tannage végétal destiné à des traitements de restauration de livres anciens: une étude en cours à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). International Preservation News (39), 2006, pp. 4-8.