Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . Early American Bookbinding 171 York for the best specimen of bindingexecuted in American leather. , so far as I am aware, left no markof identification upon his handiwork, sothat we snail never know how meritori-ous were the bindings that sufficed to winfor him, in the early dawn of the nine-teenth century, this bibliopegic prize. Books which contain the ticket of anAmerican binder are so few and far be-tween that I am disposed to make a noteof even the unimportant example of theart of bookbinding, to which is affixedthe following label:
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . Early American Bookbinding 171 York for the best specimen of bindingexecuted in American leather. , so far as I am aware, left no markof identification upon his handiwork, sothat we snail never know how meritori-ous were the bindings that sufficed to winfor him, in the early dawn of the nine-teenth century, this bibliopegic prize. Books which contain the ticket of anAmerican binder are so few and far be-tween that I am disposed to make a noteof even the unimportant example of theart of bookbinding, to which is affixedthe following label: BOUND AT IVRSONS BINDERY, Where binding is executed in its various branches. PATENT RULING Done in the neatest manner. HUDSON, x. v. This little duodecimo Book of Psalms,printed in 1805, is bound in dark red mo-rocco, gilt edges, with a simple decora-tion upon the back, which is
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