Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . e inscription upon the fly-leaf,which certifies that this was HannahBoudinots book, bound and gilt at Tren-ton, 1785. It is to be regretted that the artisanwho, at this early period, was able to pro-duce a binding of so creditable a charac-ter remains unknown. He left his workunsigned, but this is as we might ex-pect, for the bibliopegists of all timeshave been a modest race of men, quitecontent apparently to quietly pursue theircalling and wake up each morning tostill find themselves obscure. The dam- Early American Bookbinding 165 ask, velvet
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . e inscription upon the fly-leaf,which certifies that this was HannahBoudinots book, bound and gilt at Tren-ton, 1785. It is to be regretted that the artisanwho, at this early period, was able to pro-duce a binding of so creditable a charac-ter remains unknown. He left his workunsigned, but this is as we might ex-pect, for the bibliopegists of all timeshave been a modest race of men, quitecontent apparently to quietly pursue theircalling and wake up each morning tostill find themselves obscure. The dam- Early American Bookbinding 165 ask, velvet and pigskin bindings of thefifteenth and sixteenth centuries werefrequently stamped with the initials ortrade-marks of the binder or gilder, butthe names which either rightfully orwrongfully we have connected with the In the same class and order of meritas the binding upon Hannah BoudinofsHymn Book, but of a different style ofdecoration, is the one upon a thick papercopy of The Federalist* in the Lenox Li-brary, printed and bound, as the ticket. _-/ */r/ */</ /*<?* t-r l . several predominant styles of book-coverdecoration, w hich have been pronounced*as incapable of further development orof finer expression, and of which wenever weary, are seldom found upon thebindings attributed to these masters; andin order to decipher the minute charac-ters, in which the signature of the modernbibliopegist is all but concealed., at thefoot of the inside cover, one almost re-quires the use of a magnifving glass. within it attests, at Franklins Head, 41Hanover Square, New York. It is insprinkled calf, full gilt, as a cataloguerwould describe it. the sides ornamentedwith a scroll border and an oval centre-piece, in the Etruscan style, so-called,a style common to the architecture, the *The Federalist: A Collection of EssaysWritten in Favour of the New Constitution. 2volumes. Printed and sold by J. & A. MLean,No. 41 Hanover Square, 1788.
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