Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . rbiMtipi ? Early American Bookbinding 169 lifted up their voices as lustily in OldHundredth, and the rustic maidens,their fair associates, chanted the EasterAnthem as sweetly, from the coarselyengraved score of this brown and bat-tered Harmonist as if it had been cuton copper by a master hand, adornedwith a frontispiece by Hogarth, andbound in French gros-grained bright redmorocco, elegantly ornamented like untothe binding here displayed, which Fran- hand already made willing captives bythe dare-devil Brom Van Brunt. By the close of the eighteen
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . rbiMtipi ? Early American Bookbinding 169 lifted up their voices as lustily in OldHundredth, and the rustic maidens,their fair associates, chanted the EasterAnthem as sweetly, from the coarselyengraved score of this brown and bat-tered Harmonist as if it had been cuton copper by a master hand, adornedwith a frontispiece by Hogarth, andbound in French gros-grained bright redmorocco, elegantly ornamented like untothe binding here displayed, which Fran- hand already made willing captives bythe dare-devil Brom Van Brunt. By the close of the eighteenth centuryit is evident that the arts of printing andbookbinding had come to a parting ofthe ways, and that the bindery, sanguineof its ability to walk alone, had begun totake upon itself the risks and responsi-bilities of a separate establishment. TheNew York Citv Directories of the closing
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