Punch Book Repairs

Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazineof humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.-Wikipedia 

The Punch magazines were bound into a collection of volumes each book usually containing six months worth of the Punch Magazine. They are fairly inexpensive ranging from £5.00-£60.00 per book depending on their condition.  I've now repaired three volumes. In each case it was just a spine repair keeping the original book boards.

This was the worst book of the three.  The book was obviously left on a shelf exposed to direct sunlight as the spine has been bleached of its colour.

Removing the case from the book block

Cleaning up the old spine

I thought this unusual. Normally you would use the access thread and glue them to the case. But here they glued them to the back of the spine.

re-enforced the spine with Mull and Kraft Paper

Trimming the End Papers

Measuring the cloth for the new spine.

Preparing the boards for the new spine

Adding adhesive under the original book cloth to adhere it to the new spine cloth.

All attached and new spine stiffener added. I used Manila for the spine stiffener

I couldn't match the cloth 100%. This is actually the second book not the first, which is the sun bleached one.

I decided to match the cloth to the front cover rather than the sun bleached spine.