New Collaboration - Conservation Training for Auction Houses & Book Dealers
It is always a pleasure to work with other conservators and over the last few months I have been working on a couple of projects with Ann-Marie Miller ACR, MA (codexconservation.com) an experienced conservator of works of Book Conservation, also based in London. One of these has resulted in our collaboration to reach out to auction houses and book dealers in and around London to offer conservation training on handling, assessment and how to offer and access advice for clients. We have now provided training to the teams at Bonham's and Sotheby's, which has been incredibly interesting. The teams work with huge books from all periods and cultures, with all kinds of damage from minor tears, and old insect damage to full-on obliteration of bindings due to fire. We are keen to extend this training opportunity as valuable knowledge for our allied professions.
Below is our leaflet that we have created about the training.
Suzanne Press is a Trustee of The Levantine Foundation since September 2019.
“The aim (of this registered charity) is to record and preserve cultural heritage in on paper and related materials in the Near East”