Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects (1902)
Andrews, William Loring · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 24
whose names appear in Long- I 72 The Bookman ivorths New York City Directory for1826-j, as engaged in business at PineStreet, corner of Broadway. The samedirectory contains the name of WilliamWalker, 32 Eldridge Street, at whosebindery, or that of his sons, removed toFulton Street, the writer… … have had some of his earliest bindingsexecuted. No examples of their skill, orrather the lack of it. are, however, now inmy possession. It was a heavy and in-artistic binding, only one remove—namely, that of the substitution of calf-skin or morocco for Russia leather—from the bindings in which the…
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