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The Bride of Frankenstein Pressbook

This week we resurrected a Bride of Frankenstein   pressbook for our client John Ulakovic. The book came to us in pieces. The front and back covers had been separated and had several tears, creases, and ragged edges. Our job was to strengthen and fortify the covers, bind them in a book-like fashion, and restore any distracting damage in the cover art. Which is far more complicated than it may sound. Here are the covers flipped over. You may be able to see where there was some previous restoration, a slightly pinkish area toward the middle of the right-hand margin of the cover on the left. At first we thought the collaged-in paper was taken from a duplicate pressbook, so we wanted to keep it rather than redoing it with our own materials. After all was said and done we learned it was actually made by a very fancy inkjet printer. Still, it was a good match. The fronts. Here you can see creases in the paper. With thick card like this the creases are always very stubborn so e