Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . 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
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . 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. John Reed. 17 Water Wier, 52 Maiden Hodge. 38 Maiden Gomez, 32 Maiden Lane. The advertisement of the last-named inthe New York Journal & Patriotic Regis-ter for the year 1791 reads as follows: Book-binding carried on with neatness anddispatch. Orders from the country will becarefully attended to. That the typographers were, however,disinclined to abandon the field to special-ists in bibliopegy is shown by this adver-tisement, clipped from the New YorkJournal for December 21, 1791 : Binding. Gilding & Blank-book Ruling Per-formed in the neatest manner, and with theutmost expedition at Greenleafs, No. 196Water St. Tn order to give the most ample satisfactonto his customers in his general business, asbinding is closely allied with printing, has engaged a complete binder,gilder, and ruler at an extraordinary will engage that every one who may bepleased to employ him shall be satisfied, or nopay; and that all the work
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