Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . silverware, and the furniture of the pe-riod, as well as to the exterior decorationof the covers of books which inheritedits graceful lines, festoons and scrollsfrom the Greek, and should be recognisedas classical, but is generally known to usonly by the much-used and abused termcolonial. We find similar tools em-ployed and a like design upon the coverof a copy of the American edition ofBrowns Illustrated Family Bible* boundin red morocco, which material alone ele-vates it to higher rank as a binding thanThe Federalist, bound in calf. The backof
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . silverware, and the furniture of the pe-riod, as well as to the exterior decorationof the covers of books which inheritedits graceful lines, festoons and scrollsfrom the Greek, and should be recognisedas classical, but is generally known to usonly by the much-used and abused termcolonial. We find similar tools em-ployed and a like design upon the coverof a copy of the American edition ofBrowns Illustrated Family Bible* boundin red morocco, which material alone ele-vates it to higher rank as a binding thanThe Federalist, bound in calf. The backof this cumbersome elephant folio Bibleis panelled in blue and yellow leathers,separated by bands of green, the wholerichly tooled in gold a petits fers. Theupper panel bears the title of the book,the lower one the name of the first owner,Mary Ellis, 1792, whose signature alsoappears upon the fly-leaf under date ofAugust 12, 1793. This mosaic binding,for such it is, was produced by ThomasAllen, book-seller, stationer and printer,as he is describe
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