Excerpt from Print Restoration and Picture Cleaning: An Illustrated Practical Guide to the Restoration of All Kinds of Prints; Together With Chapters on Cleaning Water-Colours, Print "Fakes" And Their Detection, Anomalies in Print Values, and Prints to Collect In the ordinary way a few years will suffice to produce spots on an engraving or a drawing, particularly if the wall be at all inclined to damp ness. Moreover, unless remedies are applied the print or the drawing will go from bad to worse, and ultimately rot. From this it will be deduced that it is as well to remedy matters as quickly as possible. If the instructions' given in this work are carefully followed, they should enable an average intelligent individual to deal with his own prints and pictures in such a manner as to improve their appearance, and give to them a fresh lease of life. Again, it may very well happen that the lover of Art may find in some obscure quarter a picture or an engraving that owing to some blemish appears to be worthless. To be able to deal with such blemishes - to remove dirt, varnish, &c., and to remedy other defects - should provide not only a very pleasur able employment, but ofttimes a very profitable one, for calling in outside assistance, with its attendant expense, will be avoided. Throughout the work will be found a fairly comprehensive list of such conditions, &c., as will at once denoteand Picture Cleaning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.