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BOOKBINDING IN EARLY AMERICA.
French, Hannah D.

- Worcester : American Antiquarian Society 1986 - 4to. - cloth. - xxiv, 230 pages. - ISBN 0912296763 / Order Nr. 38017 - Price: $ 49.95 View Table of Contents

First edition. Contains previously published and unpublished works by Hannah French. Articles on Andrew Barclay, an early Boston binder, Henry B. Legg, Caleb Buglass, a Philadelphia binder, John Roulstone's Harvard bindings, and Thomas Jefferson's last binder, Frederick August Mayo. Also contains catalogues of bookbinding tools by Willman Spawn. Foreword by Marcus A. McCorison. Many illustrations.

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