From the Baltimore Sun:
The rips can be mended, the greasy finger smudges cleaned and the paper plumped, but such painstaking conservation of the Maryland State Law Library\’s valuable set of original John James Audubon prints comes at a cost of nearly $300,000.
The condition of the library\’s 19th-century prints was reviewed in November by Rolf Kat, senior conservator of the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia.
He found some images in the four volumes crumpled, page corners torn away and splotches of glue from backing bleeding into the famed art . . .
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