Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . ay have their Books carefullyand neatly new Bound either Plain orGilt reasonable. In Samuel Willards Body of Divinity(folio), Boston, 1726, one of the contro-versial writings of which the literature ofPuritan New England so largely con-sisted, we have an example of Americanbookmaking from start to finish.* It is *A Compleat Body of Divinity, by theReverend and Learned Samuel Willard, , a large folio—one of the first books of itssize printed in New England—bound infoxy brown sheepskin with panelledsides, and so far as the makers were ab
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . ay have their Books carefullyand neatly new Bound either Plain orGilt reasonable. In Samuel Willards Body of Divinity(folio), Boston, 1726, one of the contro-versial writings of which the literature ofPuritan New England so largely con-sisted, we have an example of Americanbookmaking from start to finish.* It is *A Compleat Body of Divinity, by theReverend and Learned Samuel Willard, , a large folio—one of the first books of itssize printed in New England—bound infoxy brown sheepskin with panelledsides, and so far as the makers were ableto accomplish that result, it is a counter-part of cotemporaneous English copied as best we could, and I fearwithout proper acknowledgment, boththe exteriors and the interiors of the pop-ular English books of the day. As oneout of many instances of this practice thatmight be supplied, we reproduce on a re-Boston, in New England. Printed by B. Greenand S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Hench-man, and sold at their shops. BINDING OF THE THIRD EDITION OF THE BAY PSALM BOOK. The Bookman 4— -MTWto duced scale one of the plates in a London(1794) edition of a little work on theNewtonian system of philosophy, andone from a reprint of it published in Phil-adelphia in 1803. The latter is illus-trated with exact reproductions of the en-gravings in the London edition, exceptthat the plates are reversed and enlargedas shown on pages 48 and 49. Thesecopies were engraved by William Rollin-son, an artist who enjoyed the unique dis-tinction of having chased the buttonsupon the coat worn by Washington at hisfirst inauguration as President of theUnited States in Federal Hall, NewYork. Rollinsons descendants are stillengaged in the business of copper-plateengraving in this city. Isaiah Thomas, whose position as theforemost and most prolific (it is said thatat one time he had sixteen presses in useand owned eight book-stores) of NewEnglands eighteenth century printers, i
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