Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . Thomas Wignell, Comedian, now in the possession of Mr. S. P. Avery, a bookmade doubly valuable by having the greatchieftains bold, clear signature upon thetitle-page. It is a royal octavo, bound ina hard, close-textured, highly polisheddark red morocco, the sides inlaid withgreen borders, with ornamental gilt scrolltooling. The back of the volume is elab-orately gilt-tooled with small stamps, oneof which is the acorn a tool so frequentlyused by the Mearnes (the distinguishedEnglish bibliopegist predecessors ofRoger Payne), as to have become cons
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . Thomas Wignell, Comedian, now in the possession of Mr. S. P. Avery, a bookmade doubly valuable by having the greatchieftains bold, clear signature upon thetitle-page. It is a royal octavo, bound ina hard, close-textured, highly polisheddark red morocco, the sides inlaid withgreen borders, with ornamental gilt scrolltooling. The back of the volume is elab-orately gilt-tooled with small stamps, oneof which is the acorn a tool so frequentlyused by the Mearnes (the distinguishedEnglish bibliopegist predecessors ofRoger Payne), as to have become consid-ered as reliable an indication of theirwork, as is the sausage pattern whichappears upon so many of the bindingsattributed to them. Positive proof that this binding wasexecuted in this country is lacking, butappearances and the circumstantial evi-dence in the case point to that conclusion. [his comedy in five acts by Royal Ty-ler, which claims to be the first Essayof American Genius in the DramaticArt, has become exceedingly rare, not-withst
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