@fine.books wrote:
I remember when this thread was pinned.
Over here they call that 'showing your age'. I don't mind showing my age - but feeling it is not my favorite thing.
I think I joined the board about 4 months after this thread began. Lot of changes since then.
Found anything interesting tucked in ancient bindings recently? I recall you found two pieces of Egyptian papyrus once. Still waiting for my spectacular discovery.
If anyone knows this it is you - what is a good indicator that work done on a book was done by a top-shelf conservator as opposed to someone who is just good at it? And what do you look for (to tell that something happened there) if the work is so good it is difficult to tell anything was required to be done at all? The Schott item in another thread is basically what I'm referring to. I can see where some work has been done as it would have been very difficult, if not impossible, to perfectly reinstate. But there are things that could well be either original paper faults or some craftily-disguised repair.
Have a joyous Noel, a fat and prosperous new year and a fun election - we get ours as a pre-Xmas treat. Do you think our current national leaders would make a good pair of book-ends? We've probably got both of them for another four years or so.
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A preoccupation with the next world is a clear indication of an inability to cope credibly with this one.
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