Box 4
Contains 6 Results:
Saving Our Books and Words: The Conservation and Preservation of Books
Exhibit shown Main Library (December 7, 1988-mid-January 1989)
Bill Anthony Collection of Fine Bindings, 1998
1998 appraisal and article on acquisition by University of Iowa Libraries; photographs of some bindings; zinco for Book of Kells decoration. The collection is cataloged as xfZ269.3.F55A5 v.1-31. A great many books Anthony conserved are easily discovered in the x collection.
Conservation of Iowa State Constitution, 1988
Photographs, clippings, & articles
Making Manuscripts
A video (http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?cat=2&segid=372) created by the J. Paul Getty Museum (1988) in which WA demonstrates sewing on signatures and other aspects of binding medieval manuscripts. Present here is a 96 page script, each page dated August 1988. Three pages, 54-56, concern "Binding the Manuscript" and refer to WA filmed sewing on sections. The video continues to be widely shown to explain the construction of early illuminated manuscripts. For other videos featuring WA, see the Standards Seminars in the Guild of Book Workers Library.