A book of advice to children is an embroidered book containing family advice and notes from the 1620s to the 1770s from generations of the Apethorpes family.

The textile cover remained insitu and was repaired along the spine and at the corners

A bespoke box was made for it to protect the delicate textile

Manuscript on parchment with a much later (19th-20th century) binding that was damaging the original material

A burst pipe had resulted in waterstaining of these unbound textblocks

They were surface cleaned, washed, deacidified, resized and flattened to reduce the staining and improve the strength of the paper

Repairs were made to the parchment leaves where the bifolium had torn and old repairs had become inflexible

A new limp vellum cover was made to offer protection and allow for easy consultation

A bespoke box was made to house the new binding and the remains of the old binding

Cloth covered case binding.

The paper was very brittle and delicate, the case had seperated from the textblock and the original sewing had fallen apart

Surface cleaned, extensive paper repair, resewn and rebacked in blue cloth