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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 2361237, member: 14916&quot;]Some news on the restoration. I have visited 2 restoration companies. The first one was a more artisan one. She did not have much time and told me a full restoration of the book would cost much more then my budget. In the end she did not want to do it, because of personal circumstances.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I visited another restaurator in a nearby town (Helmond), this is a much larger one, They made me an offer on the following restorations:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Cleaning </p><p>- Solidify the pages of the first and last gathering/section/quire</p><p>- Restore the sewing support/band</p><p>- Restore the headband/endband</p><p>[ATTACH=full]261473[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>- Placing a new spine/back</p><p>- Restore the leather binding</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>All together a quite extensive restoration of the book, that will cost me a bit more then I have thought, but I agreed. They could not say when it will be finished yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>This restoration does cost more then I have payed for the book itself and I am not sure if from a monetary point of view this will pay out. From a historical perspective with this restoration I have saved this book from further decline, so it will last for another few hundred years. That is in my opinion more important than the value of the book itself. I don&#039;t want to sell the book anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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