Listed below are selected items that have been treated or housed by Emily.

At Heirloom Conservatory, any type of book from any era may be treated. Flat works will be considered based on the nature of the media. More complex media considerations will be referred to a paper conservator.  In addition to books and works of art on paper, treatments may be performed on documents, letters, cards, scrapbooks & albums, and botanical specimens. If you have a different type of paper-based item, do not hesitate to enquire whether or not it can be treated. 

Items considered for treatment may be of sentimental, historical, and/or monetary value. If you are considering the conservation of an item, it is valuable and will be treated with due respect.

• Early 16th-c. letterpress-printed commentaries on the Torah with manuscript marginalia in an 18th-c. hollowback half leather binding with marbled paper sides. 
• Early 17th-c. letterpress-printed copy of the Decameron in a 19th-c. full leather tightback binding with gold tooling. 
• Mid 17th-c. letterpress-printed history book in a stiff-board vellum binding with metal and leather fastenings.
• Mid 18th-c. manuscript university trustees’ minutes in a stationery binding of quarter sheepskin and marbled paper sides. 
• 18th-c. letterpress-printed early American government journals in a 19th c. quarter leather binding with paper sides. 
• Mid 19th-c. letterpress-printed fiction book in a publisher’s cloth binding with gold stamping. 
• Mid 20th-c. letterpress-printed book of literature in a publisher’s paper case binding with a slipcase of paper-covered boards.

before & after treatment detail shots of bound materials

• 19th-c. watercolor on a pith sheet with a paper-backed silk border. 
• Early 20th-c. Pablo Picasso drawing of wax crayon over graphite on paper. 
• Early 20th c. Anders Zorn etching on paper. 
• Mid 20th-c. Saul Steinberg drawing of pen and ink washes, matte opaque black paint, graphite, crayons, colored pencils, collage of cut printed paper, and stamp and ink on paper. 
• 20th-c. Diego Rivera drawing of graphite on paper.