When volumes like these get damaged, their owners seek out rare specialists like Audra Loyal, a book restoration expert and owner of the Vespiary Bookstore and Bindery. In her space on the second ...

so that anyone can learn archival-book repair. The book I'm restoring today is the Hans Christian Andersen "Fairy Tales" book from the late 1800s, early 1900s. The first thing that we do in pretty ...

BOOKFORGE is a business that specializes in the restoration and conservation of old books and documents. The grant allows BOOKFORGE to welcome a new apprentice, which will ensure bookbinding ...

About 10,000 books were lost, Eccles said ... it would be about $400,000 – and that isn’t including repair costs. The Athol library, which also had a pipe burst, has more furniture damage ...