Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . //,/>/./ (ftien -> binding for himself as formerly, and livesin Dukes St. (commonly called BayardSt.) near the Old-Slip Market; (NewYork) where all Persons in Town orCountry may 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 L

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Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . //,/>/./ (ftien -> binding for himself as formerly, and livesin Dukes St. (commonly called BayardSt.) near the Old-Slip Market; (NewYork) where all Persons in Town orCountry may 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 t

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