Historic Textile and Paper Materials Conservation and Characterization

Review copy, with review request and prospectus loosely inserted. Twenty-four chapters by various authors in three sections: Conservation and degradation of textiles, with a chapter on the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum; characterization and preservation of textiles, and conservation, degradation and characterization of paper. Some chapter titles of the last section: "Standards for Archival Materials," "Monitoring the Autoxidation of Paper Using Photographic Materials," "Stabilization of Paper Through Sodium Borohydride Treatment," etc. No. 212 of the ACS Advances in Chemistry Series. With photos, tables, graphs, glossary and indexes. References at ends of chapters. A portion of the dust jacket design is also gilt-stamped on the front cover. Review copy with material loosely inserted. xi, 462, 2 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..