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Conservation Blog Post: Disbinding Blog Post
It is difficult to describe how one faces the prospect of taking apart a national treasure. Of course, in order to reach the level of craftsmanship required, there are years of education and practice required, but that doesn't begin to fully describe it.
All About Stubs Video
Book conservators always want to know how a book was bound. Before you can even think about how to fix something, you first have to know how it was made.
"I am of a sect by myself, as far
as I know." — Thomas Jefferson, 1819
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The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition, is a full-color facsimile created from high-resolution digital photographs of recently conserved and rebound pages.