Antiques. Their Restoration and Preservation

Alfred Lucas (1867-1945), o autor de Ancient Egyptian Materials & Industries, que há dias aqui referi, publicou também um manual sobre restauro de antiguidades, que teve 1.ª edição em 1924 e 2.ª edição, revista, em 1932:

A. Lucas, Antiques. Their Restoration and Preservation, London, Edward Arnold, 1924, 136 pp.

Este manual é anterior aos manuais de A. Scott (The Cleaning and Restoration of Museum Exhibits, 1926) e de H. J. Plenderleith (The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, 1956), muito mais conhecidos.

A 1.ª edição está livremente disponível aqui.

Índice:

Restoration

• Introduction
• Restoration
• Cleaning
• Repairing
• Strengthening
• Renewing

Preservation

• Light
• Moisture and other atmospheric influences
• Dust
• Insects
• Bacteria and fungi
• Handling
• Preservative coatings

Application of methods to specific materials

• Alabaster
• Amber and other resins
• Baskets and reed work
• Beads
• Clay
• Faience
• Feathers and hair
• Gesso and plaster
• Glass
• Ivory, bone and horn
• Jewellery and enamel
• Leather
• Metals (gold, silver, copper, bronze, iron and lead)
• Papyrus and paper
• Parchment and vellum
• Pictures
• Pottery
• Stone
• Textile fabrics
• Wood

Simple physical and chemical tests

• Physical tests
• Chemical tests
• Reagents and solutions required