Ranger, Edmund

Name/Title

Ranger, Edmund

Description

* d. 1705. Arguably the second bookbinder to practice in the Colonies. Lawrence C. Wroth, The Colonial Printer, pg. 203. 1. 'Edmund Ranger was admitted as a freeman in Boston in 1671'. He died in 1705. Hannah French, "Early American Bookbinding by Hand" from: "Bookbinding in America" Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pgs. 10, 101. 2. Thomas J. Holmes. The Bookbindings of John Ratcliff and Edmund Ranger, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, XXXVIII, 31-50; 291-306, Oct. 1929.

Also Known As

Edmund Ranger

Biographical Information

Occupation

Bookbinder and Bookseller