Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . Master at the NezvPrinting Office near the Market (Phila-delphia), ivhere advertisements are takenin and bookbinding is done reasonably inthe best manner. William Parks, printer and publisherof The Maryland Gazette (1729), like-wise puts himself forward as a binder ofbooks in the following language: —Old Books are well bound by him,and Henry De Foreest advertises in hisNew York Evening Post, January 17,1750, that <7// sorts of blank books forMerchants Accompts are for sale by theprinter thereof, Also Old Books NeatlyBound, Lettered or Gil
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . Master at the NezvPrinting Office near the Market (Phila-delphia), ivhere advertisements are takenin and bookbinding is done reasonably inthe best manner. William Parks, printer and publisherof The Maryland Gazette (1729), like-wise puts himself forward as a binder ofbooks in the following language: —Old Books are well bound by him,and Henry De Foreest advertises in hisNew York Evening Post, January 17,1750, that <7// sorts of blank books forMerchants Accompts are for sale by theprinter thereof, Also Old Books NeatlyBound, Lettered or Gilt very expeditious-ly. These extracts, taken at randomfrom the dusty files of American journalsof the eighteenth century, will suffice toshow how generally in those primitivetimes the printing and the binding—suchas it was—of a book, were the allottedtask of one individual or business an exception to prove this rule wenote the advertisement in Bradfords Ga-zette, September, 1734, of one JosephJohnson, that he is now set tip Book-.
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