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Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . rbiMtipi ? Early American Bookbinding 169 lifted up their voices as lustily in OldHundredth, and the rustic maidens,their fair associates, chanted the EasterAnthem as sweetly, from the coarselyengraved score of this brown and bat-tered Harmonist as if it had been cuton copper by a master hand, adornedwith a frontispiece by Hogarth, andbound in French gros-grained bright redmorocco, elegantly ornamented like untothe binding here displayed, which Fran- hand already made willing captives bythe dare-devil Brom Van Brunt. By the close of the eighteen
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . rbiMtipi ? Early American Bookbinding 169 lifted up their voices as lustily in OldHundredth, and the rustic maidens,their fair associates, chanted the EasterAnthem as sweetly, from the coarselyengraved score of this brown and bat-tered Harmonist as if it had been cuton copper by a master hand, adornedwith a frontispiece by Hogarth, andbound in French gros-grained bright redmorocco, elegantly ornamented like untothe binding here displayed, which Fran- hand already made willing captives bythe dare-devil Brom Van Brunt. By the close of the eighteenth centuryit is evident that the arts of printing andbookbinding had come to a parting ofthe ways, and that the bindery, sanguineof its ability to walk alone, had begun totake upon itself the risks and responsi-bilities of a separate establishment. TheNew York Citv Directories of the closing. cis Bedford placed, at a cost of nineguineas, upon another book of soulfulmelody, to wit, Mr. Leveridges Collec-tion of Songs with the Mustek, London,1727. It must have been from a coun-terpart of this Introduction to Psalmody,by Mr. Read, fitly calculated for the useof Singing-Schools, that the lank, long-shanked schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane,instructed the sweet and buxom Ka-trina in the divine art of music whilst hewas laying fruitless siege to the heart and vcars of the eighteenth century, containthe names of a number of individuals,among them the following, who stylethemselves simply bookbinders, althoughsome of them were also stationers andprinters; John Black. 20 Little Queen (Cedar) Christie. 15 Cliff Cliland. 15 Madison Kirby. 44 Crown (Liberty) Macgill, 212 Water Street. 170 The Bookman
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