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Bookbinding in Early America: Seven Essays on Masters and Methods

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By Hannah D. French (au)
Year: 1986
Pages: 230
Binding Hardcover (no d.j.)
ISBN 912296763

Product Code: 1437971199

Description

This book brings together published (and unpublished) work of Hannah Dustin French, one of the few historians of American bookbinding and assuredly a pioneer in the field. Contents: Scottish-American Bookbindings; The Amazing Career of Andrew Barclay, Scottish Bookbinder, of Boston; “Bound in Boston by Henry B. Legg”; Caleb Buglass, Binder of the Proposed Book of Common Prayer, Philadelphia, 1786; John Roulstone’s Harvard Bindings; Full Gilt and Extra Gilt; Thomas Jefferson’s Last Bookbinder: Frederick August Mayo. Over 90 illustrations.

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