Repairing Adventures with the Keach Collection

I got to the point in my work with the antique Keach Collection that I needed to repair some of the loose spines and brittle covers. This is an example of a common thing I ran across: scrap paper seemed to be used as reinforcement for most of the spines and covers of the cloth-bound books.

These random bits of printed clippings seemed secret and it was almost a shame to glue them back on. I was one of the only ones to see these hidden snippets - though now you are in on the secret too.