Clean Sweep

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

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The Clean Sweep – It’s the Final Countdown!

by Bean an Phoist on October 6, 2011 · 1 comment

in Collections,Conservation,Projects,Rare books

by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the final phase of the project, which will run to the end of 2011, and I thought that readers might be interested [...]

Tagged as: Books, British Museum, Charles Mackay, Clean Sweep, Cleaning, Conservation, Dr. Jaspar Robert Joly, Geoffrey Gambado, Joly Collection, Nikki Ralston, Projects, R.D.S., Rare book team, Rare books, René Descartes, Royal Dublin Society, Tours, Trustees' Room, Watts Phillips

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The Art of Scribbling

by Bean an Phoist on August 19, 2011 · 2 comments

in Collections,Conservation,Printed books,Projects,Rare books

by Giada Gelli, Preservation Assistant We have all done some scribbling on copies, books, magazines and whatnot at some stage in our lives. There is nothing more pleasant than evading the realms of reality, shutting your ears to the world, and letting your pen (or pencil!) chase the boredom away. But still, I wasn’t expecting [...]

Tagged as: 1720, 1776, Clean Sweep, Conservation, Giada Gelli, Historia Naturali, Incubus, Joly Collection, Latin, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Lord William Robert Fitzgerald, Pierre Coste, Pliny the Elder, Projects, Rare books, Sir Isaac Newton, Traité d'optique