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Saving Your Family Treasures

Bachmann, Konstanze
Conservation Concerns: a Guide for Collectors and Curators
New York: Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, 1992.
AM141 .C64 1992

Clapp, by Anne F.
Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper: Basic Procedures for Paper Preservation
New York: Nick Lyons, 1987.
TS1109 .C55 1987

Fielden, James
The Antiques Clinic: A Guide to Damage, Care, and Restoration
Hauppauge, NY : Barron's, 1998.
(r)NK1127.5.A58 1998

Jackson, Albert and Day, David
The Antiques Care & Repair Handbook
New York: Knopf, 1984.
NK1127.5 .J32 1984

Katz-Schwartz, Judith
Protecting Your Collectible Treasures: Secrets of a Collecting Diva
Woodinville, Wash.: Martingale & Co., c2001.
NK1127.5.K38 2001

Kovel, Ralph and Terry
Kovel's Guide to Selling, Buying, and Fixing Your Antiques and Collectibles
New York: Crown, 1995.
NK1125 .K643 1995

Landi, Sheila
The Textile Conservator's Manual
Boston: Butterworths, 1985.
rNK8804.5 .L36 1985

Long, Jane S.
Caring for Your Family Treasures: Heritage Preservation
New York; Abrams, 2000.
NK1127.5.L66 2000

Miller, Judith
Care and Repair of Everyday Treasures
Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest, 1997.
qNK1127.5 .M53 1997

National Committee to Save America's Cultural Collections
Caring for Your Collections
New York: Abrams, 1992.
qAM303 .C37 1992

Newton, Roy
Conservation of Glass
Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.
rNK5104.5 .N4 1996

Peake, Jacquelyn
How to Recognize and Refinish Antiques for Pleasure and Profit
Old Saybrook, Conn.: Globe Pequot, 1995.
NK1125 .P39 1995

Sagraves, Barbara
A Preservation Guide: Saving the Past and the Present for the Future
Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1995.
(r) Z701 .S24 1995 (also in Pennsylvania Department)

Shelley, Marjorie
The Care and Handling of Art Objects: Practices in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art: dist. by Abrams, 1987.
NK1127.5 .S52 1987

Smith, Merrily A.
Matting and Hinging of Works of Art on Paper
New York: Consultant Press, 1990. A National Preservation Program Publication.
qN8550 .M37 1990x

Snyder, Jill
Caring for Your Art
New York : Allworth, c2001.
N8560.S66 2001x

Sotheby's Caring for Antiques: the Complete Guide to Handling, Cleaning, Display and Restoration
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
qNK1127.5 .S67 1992

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Subject headings to check in the online catalog include:

Books on specific collectibles often have chapters on care and restoration