Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects (1902)
Andrews, William Loring · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 22
of Book-Sellers,* an asso-ciation of book-sellers in New York.Philadelphia and Boston, founded in 1801and dissolved in 1805. Annual fairswere held by this organization in XewYork City, Philadelphia and Newark,X. J., at which premiums were offeredfor the best examples of paper, printing,ink,… … Early American Bookbinding 171 York for the best specimen of bindingexecuted in American leather. Mr.Swain, so far as I am aware, left no markof identification upon his handiwork, sothat we snail never know how meritori-ous were the bindings that sufficed to winfor him, in the early dawn of the…
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