Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . * .*>»? *>/rt l . 7iO/t/r>: &rt&i<Kiy?ra*Agrnf-<0. W/?? wyvfftir ?, </<» <f/ #J& %Sn*de* and Scotch editions through which itpassed will be found in A History ofMusic in New England, by GeorgeHood, Boston. 1846. The last edition ofthis noted Psalmody issued in this coun-try was in the year 1762. Our first typographers were, as hasbeen already stated, of necessity theirown bookbinders. The columns of our old, make up the contents of these littleweazen-faced, sallow-complected four-page journals. In Mr. William Brad-fords G
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . * .*>»? *>/rt l . 7iO/t/r>: &rt&i<Kiy?ra*Agrnf-<0. W/?? wyvfftir ?, </<» <f/ #J& %Sn*de* and Scotch editions through which itpassed will be found in A History ofMusic in New England, by GeorgeHood, Boston. 1846. The last edition ofthis noted Psalmody issued in this coun-try was in the year 1762. Our first typographers were, as hasbeen already stated, of necessity theirown bookbinders. The columns of our old, make up the contents of these littleweazen-faced, sallow-complected four-page journals. In Mr. William Brad-fords Gazette, the following advertise-ment appears with the regularity ofclock-work : Printed and sold by William Brad-ford in New York, where advertisementsarc taken in, and where you may have old 62 The Bookman. books, neiv Bound, cither Plain or Gilt,and Money for Linen Rags. The copy in the Lenox Library of TheMohawk Prayer Book* translated byLawrence Claesse, and printed by Brad-ford in 1715, is believed to be in its orig-inal binding. If this be so, it supplies, Itake for granted, an example of theplain bindings which our proto-typog-rapher announces, as above, his ability toexecute. It is a binding of dull andugly plainness in sprinkled sheep, theedges spattered with red, but mind ye!should you strip off that old time-stainedleather jacket and replace it with one incrushed levant, triple-gilt by Chambolle,Lortic, or some other Maitre modernede Bibliopcgic du premier rang, youwould simply rob it of at least one-halfits value in the eyes of every book-an-tiquary of judgment and experience. Similar notices to the one in WilliamBradfords Gazette appear in the Phila-delphia American Weekly Mercury, pub- *Mohawk Prayer-Book. The Morning and Evening Prayer, the Lit-any, Church Catechism, Family
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