Bookbinding in Early America

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Bookbinding in Early America

Entry/Object ID

2018.7.2

Description

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

Collection

Reference

Dimensions

Height

10-3/4 in

Width

7-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Hannah Dustin French

Publisher

American Antiquarian Society

Place Published

City

Worcester

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1986

Printer

Meriden-Stinehour Press

Place Printed

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Binding

Binding Type

Hardcover or Case Bound

Binding Notes

Bound in red book cloth, gilt title on spine and lozenge fleuron on front cover. Plain endpapers. Red and yellow made endbands.

Exhibition

Lobby Case Dec 2019 - April 2020