'Carrots', Just a Little Boy - Mrs. Molesworth, 1891

'Carrots' came to me in decent shape from a $1 sale, but the joints were torn and the textblock was solid be separated from the covers. 

The textblock had taken parts of the front and back pastedown with it, but they were still present, so I saved them for later.

First step is clean all of the old spine lining and glue off of the textblock.

Much better.

After lining the spine with kozo paper using methyl cellulose, I opted to practice some sewn silk endbands on this book. It didn't come with endbands originally, and if it had they would've been the pre-fabbed, glued-on type, but this was a great opportunity to practice the skill on an inexpensive binding.

Using red and gold based on the cover art, I think it turned out nicely!

Here's the completed reback. After the endbands, the spine was lined with another layer of kozo paper, then linen, then paper. A new spine piece was fitted into the boards, new spine cloth was toned to match the existing cloth, then everything was slid, glued, and pressed together.