The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper

Max Schweidler (Translated, Edited, and with an Appendix by Roy Perkinson)

ISBN 10: 0892368357 / ISBN 13: 9780892368358

Published by The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 2006

About this Item

hardcover, illustrated boards., minute wrinkle to bottom tips of boards. no other flaws or wear. clean, no markings of any sort. tight binding. verso of cover has an unusually fine bookplate without a name.; xiii-301pp., illustrated throughout in color, b/w. first english translation of this important german work on paper conservation. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper
• Publisher: The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0892368357
• ISBN 13: 9780892368358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First English Language Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
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About this title

Synopsis

Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandsetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw. has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. This volume, based on the authoritative revised German edition of 1950, makes Schweidler's work available in English for the first time, in a meticulously edited and annotated scholarly edition. An extensively illustrated appendix presents case studies of eleven Old Master prints that were treated using the techniques Schweidler discusses.

About the Author

ROY PERKINSON is head of the Virginia Herrick Deknatel Paper Conservation Laboratory at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.