TREATMENT

• Boards stabilised with tabs of Japanese paper toned with liquid acrylics. Toned aerocotton used for tabs on head and tail panels.
• Inner hinges of Kozo paper pasted beneath joints. Where visible, these were toned using shavings of pastel pencil mixed with wheat starch paste.
• Loose fragment of tailcap re-attached onto tabs of toned paper.
• Tears in right flyleaf and title-page and four succeeding leaves repaired with Kozo paper, toned tengu paper and wheat starch paste.
• Surface cleaned with latex sponge.