This is a well-illustrated and beautifully produced book which covers the full time-span of marbled papers including quite notably the mechanically assisted marbled papers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Wolfe’s work is the culmination of his life-long interest in marbling and can be considered the “standard” work on this subject.
Jasdip Singh Dhillon
Thanks to the support of Chantry Library users and well-wishers, we have purchased some new books with your kind donations. Over the next few weeks, we’ll give you a few ‘tasters’ of what is now on offer in the library. The first book is Fabriano; City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking by Sylvia Rodgers Albro (Washington, DC and New Castle, DE: Library of Congress and Oak Knoll Press, 2016). This extensively researched and richly illustrated book represents an important milestone in the study of European papermaking. Albro draws richly on archival evidence as well as historical paper samples to produce a book which would be of great benefit to curators, librarians, conservators and historians alike.
The Chantry Library recently gifted several conservation publications to the National Gallery of Afghanistan in Kabul. The project ‘Assessing the Condition of the National Art Collection’ is organised by three bodies, the Foundation for Culture and Civil Society in Afghanistan (FCCS), an NGO in Kabul dedicated to the preservation of Afghan culture and heritage and the empowerment of civil society; S&N Consultancy, a Canadian international consulting company; and the Afghan Ministry of Culture and Information. The project is funded by the British Council, in partnership with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The British Council’s £30m Cultural Protection Fund is set up to protect cultural heritage at risk due to conflict in the Middle East and North Africa.
In 2018, a small team of conservators from the UK travelled to Kabul to assess the condition of the National Gallery’s collection, much of which was damaged due to the many years of conflict in the city. The team also assessed the training and development needs of conservation staff at the gallery. The need for essential publications on Conservation and Museum management became very clear, but access to these is virtually impossible within the country.
The second edition of Banik and Brückle’s book Paper and Water: A Guide for Conservators is now in the Chantry Library! The text and illustrations have been revised to reflect new research, and the bibliography has been expanded with new sources. There is a new chapter by Ute Henniges and Antje Posthast on the characterisation of paper by instrumental analysis, and a discussion of interpreting the data obtained to provide answers to questions conservators ask about the ageing behaviour of paper, prediction of ‘useful lifetime’ under typical storage conditions, and the use of pH to infer the general condition of a paper. Not to be missed!
Thanks to all our Chantry supporters! Your donations will be put towards new books for the Library. Congratulations to the Book and Paper Group of Icon for a fantastic conference.
Here at OCC we’re all gearing up for the Book and Paper Group Conference in Oxford next week. Come say hello to us at the Chantry stall, where you can browse the catalogue and buy some books!
We’ve got lots of duplicate copies for sale at heavily discounted prices. All journals are £2 each, 3 for £5, and books are priced individually (from £5 – £10). Check out some choice titles here, and find many more at the stall on the day.
See you at break time on Monday and Tuesday!
Look out for the Chantry Library stall at the upcoming Icon Book and Paper Group conference, taking place in Oxford from 1-3 October 2018. We will be offering some of our duplicates at bargain prices, free Chantry bookmarks, a chance to search SOLO live, and the opportunity to support a valuable conservation resource. See you there!
Will Beharrell’s time cataloguing the Chantry collection has sadly come to an end. Thanks for all your hard work, Will, and for adding 243 new records to the online catalogue SOLO!
This new-to-Chantry book by Edward Connold, author of British Vegetable Galls, and Gleanings from the Fields of Nature, has just been donated to the Chantry by Sandrine Decoux, Exhibitions Co-ordinator at the Bodleian Libraries. It is illustrated with 68 superb full-page plates, 21 insets, and 17 small drawings… of oak galls!
New to Chantry’s shelves, The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity, by Georgios Boudalis. The Oxford Conservation Consortium and Collection Care and Conservation section of the Bodleian Libraries recently spent a fascinating day on ‘Bookbinding and endbands of the Eastern Mediterranean’ with Dr Boudalis, with a small display of his publications from the library.
