Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . I HIH1HH1 ^^IHH ./y/,//.,„s,Y*„,/,/,„ /y Early American Bookbinding 65 Thomas states in his advertisementthat the paper upon which the ElegiacSonnets of Charlotte Smith is printed isa new business in America, and but late-ly introduced into Great Britain; it is thefirst manufactured by the editor. Hefurther informs us that the plates wereexecuted, not by European engravers books in a variety of styles pursuant tothe notice he inserted at the foot of thegreen paper covers, in which the monthlyparts of the Royal American Magazine,edited and publis
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . I HIH1HH1 ^^IHH ./y/,//.,„s,Y*„,/,/,„ /y Early American Bookbinding 65 Thomas states in his advertisementthat the paper upon which the ElegiacSonnets of Charlotte Smith is printed isa new business in America, and but late-ly introduced into Great Britain; it is thefirst manufactured by the editor. Hefurther informs us that the plates wereexecuted, not by European engravers books in a variety of styles pursuant tothe notice he inserted at the foot of thegreen paper covers, in which the monthlyparts of the Royal American Magazine,edited and published by him and JosephGreenleaf, were issued, to wit: Book-binding performed in all its brancheswith great care and C^we^/ih- fe///*>. />3 faff /C* <ne/i* 19t0r&0C0. rryxnA i«J. / who settled in the United States, but byan artist who obtained his knowledge inthis country. The book, therefore, isthroughout of purely domestic manu-facture. This eminent Boston and Worcesterprinter, the founder, president and bene-factor of the American AntiquarianSociety (for which he erected a build-ing at Worcester,Massachusetts), bound Thomass chap-books, such as TheDevil and Dr. Faustus, were covered witha coarse and substantial brown canvas—acoat of buckram—than which, says An-drew Lang, there is nothing cheaper,neater or more durable. The numerouschildrens books, Little Goody TwoShoes, The Juvenile Biographer, and thelike, which, issued from the Columbian,as Thomas named his press, were clad in 66 The Bookman gay coats of gilt and brilliantly tintedpapers, with intent to delight the eyesand conjure the pennies from the pock-ets of our grandparents when they wereyet in
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