Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . however, to lift it out of the grade ofcommercial bindings, and prove that was not a mere cobbler of , however, of an adept at his craftwas one Benjamin Olds, as is demon-strated by the binding in red moroccogilt on a copy of the By-Laz^s and Rulesof the Society of the Cincinnati, Trenton,1808, in which a modest little label one-quarter the size of the following appears : BENJAMIN OLDS BOOK-BINDER & STATIONER SIGN OF THE BIBLE NEWARK One of the most ornate signed bindingsof this period which has come to my no-tice is one up
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . however, to lift it out of the grade ofcommercial bindings, and prove that was not a mere cobbler of , however, of an adept at his craftwas one Benjamin Olds, as is demon-strated by the binding in red moroccogilt on a copy of the By-Laz^s and Rulesof the Society of the Cincinnati, Trenton,1808, in which a modest little label one-quarter the size of the following appears : BENJAMIN OLDS BOOK-BINDER & STATIONER SIGN OF THE BIBLE NEWARK One of the most ornate signed bindingsof this period which has come to my no-tice is one upon the presentation copyfrom the city of Xew York to RobertLenox of Coldens Memoirs of the ErieCanal Celebration, Xew York. 1825. Itis bound in red straight-grained morocco,with wide rolled bands, partly blind-tooled and partly gilt. The panel backis elaborately tooled, and at the foot isthe signature of the binders, Wilson &Nichols, whose names appear in Long- I 72 The Bookman ivorths New York City Directory for1826-j, as engaged in bu
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