Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . 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, whi
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . 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 their knickerbockers and shortfrocks. worse for wear. I have not been ableto identify Thomass more elaborate bind-ings, if any such have survived to ourtime. The German is nothing if not conserv-. Scsan^ lint eh The plain leather bindings of IsaiahThomas are, I judge, represented by theone shown in our plate, which covers acopy of The Psalms of David, To-gether with Hymns and Spiritual Songs,with Indexes, and Tables complete byIsaac Watts, , Tsaiali Thomas, Wor-cester, 1786. Tt is of sheepskin over oakboards, the former now decidedly the ative, and his racial characteristics areslowly modified by new , we are prepared for theTeutonic plainness and solidity of thebrass-knobbed calf binding, with itsbrass-tipped leather clasps, which covers,as with a coat of mail, the Gcsang Bitch,printed at Germantown, Pennsylvania, in1762, by Christopher Saner, 2d, for the L Early American Bookbinding t>7 spiritual comfort of his Danker Breth-ren, in their vernacular tongue, andthe black-letter type oftheir sides have a panel in dumb* orblind tooling, which is a modest attemptat decoration, but the boo
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