Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects (1902)
Andrews, William Loring · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 8
is noted Psalmody issued in this coun-try was in the year 1762. Our first typographers were, as hasbeen already stated, of necessity theirown bookbinders. The columns of our old, make up the contents of these littleweazen-faced, sallow-complected four-page journals. In Mr. William Brad-fords… … books, neiv Bound, cither Plain or Gilt,and Money for Linen Rags. The copy in the Lenox Library of TheMohawk Prayer Book* translated byLawrence Claesse, and printed by Brad-ford in 1715, is believed to be in its orig-inal binding. If this be so, it supplies, Itake for granted, an example of…
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