Conservation

Always judge a book by its cover

by Bean an Phoist on December 22, 2011 · 12 comments

by Elodie Leveque & Louise O’Connor, Conservation Conservators love knowing how a book was put together, and recently, we had the opportunity to examine a very interesting item. Despite being in good condition, the book needed some minor conservation treatment. But first, by closely examining the binding and the inner structure normally hidden from our [...]

Tagged as: 1669, Anton Bruodinus, Binding, Case, Conservation, Conservators, Core, Cover flaps, Cross-over beading, Elodie Leveque, Fr. Anthony Broidin, Head, Headbands, Hygroscopic, Initial letter, Irish College, Limp vellum, Linen thread, Louise O'Connor, Martyrdom, Octavo, Pastedown, Plant-fibre Cords, Prague, Propugnaculum Catholicæ Veritatis, Tail, Textblock, Vellum

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How It Is – The Beckett Clodd Collection

by Bean an Phoist on December 19, 2011 · 8 comments

in Acquisitions,Cataloguing,Collections,Conservation,Printed books

by Máire Ní Chonalláin, Assistant Keeper II The Samuel Beckett Collection which belonged to the author’s London bookseller friend, Alan Clodd, has been catalogued. We were fortunate enough to acquire this collection in 2006. The private collection of the Nobel prize-winner’s work is highly regarded as it contains virtually all of Beckett’s works in first [...]

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The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran

by Bean an Phoist on November 8, 2011 · 9 comments

in Collections,Conservation,Digital Collections,Printed books,Prints & Drawings,Projects

by Eoin Lynch, Conservation Assistant While working on The Clean Sweep book cleaning project, an interesting book I found in the Joly Collection was The speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, edited by Thomas Davis and published in London, 1847. John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) was an Irish MP and barrister who defended several [...]

Tagged as: Barrister, Book cleaning, Catholic Defenders, Clean Sweep, Eoin Lynch, Gertrude Curran, John Philpot Curran, Joly Collection, Jury, Libel, MP, Northern Star, Oratory, Rev. Michael Sandys, Robert Emmet, Sam McTier, Sarah Curran, United Irishmen, Whig, William Carey, William Drennan