Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . , from the handsof the pre-Revolutionary typographer, isindeed a very pleasant thing to sight and *This is an ornamental operation appliedafter the book has been polished. It is exe-cuted in the same way and with the same toolsas for gilding, but without any gold applied onthe places thus ornamented.—Arnctts Bib-liopegia. try in colonial days brings us in contactwith little besides books of a religiouscharacter. Bibles, psalm and prayer-books, and theological works almost mo-nopolised the time and services of theprinter. As we turn from this boo
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . , from the handsof the pre-Revolutionary typographer, isindeed a very pleasant thing to sight and *This is an ornamental operation appliedafter the book has been polished. It is exe-cuted in the same way and with the same toolsas for gilding, but without any gold applied onthe places thus ornamented.—Arnctts Bib-liopegia. try in colonial days brings us in contactwith little besides books of a religiouscharacter. Bibles, psalm and prayer-books, and theological works almost mo-nopolised the time and services of theprinter. As we turn from this book ofsacred songs, printed by ChristopherSaner, the next volume that falls underour notice is the Book of Books, namely,the English version of the Sacred Writ-ings, printed by Robert Aitkin in 1782. 68 The Bookman Robert Aitkin, best known perhaps, asthe publisher of the Pennsylvania Maga-zine, which began and ended its journal- Edinburgh. He came to Philadelphia in1769 as a bookseller ; returned to Scotlandthe same year, but came back to this. B*Tili;i)W«<llHIIIBMIUHlMIBIMU1BU^^ ^W-i«W!ii:i!IH!lilW^ Frontispiece to Major Robert Donkiris MilitaryCollections and Remarks New York, 1777 istic career during that critical period inour national life, the years 1775 and 1776,was born, we are told by Isaiah Thomas,at Dalkeith, Scotland, and served a reg-ular apprenticeship with a book-binder in country in 1771 and followed the busi-ness of bookselling and bookbindingboth before and after the RevolutionaryWar. In 1774 he became a printer, andin 1781-82 printed, at a very considerable Early American Bookbinding 69 pecuniary loss, upon a poor quality of pa-per manufactured in the State of Penn-sylvania, an edition in small octavo of TheHoly Bible, which is claimed and gener-ally conceded to be the first version ofthe Scriptures in English published inthis country; but in Isaiah Thomass ac-count, in his History of Printing, of theBoston printers, Kneeland and Green, wefind the follow
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