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Bookbinding in Colonial America

The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc., 2018-12, Vol.71 (4), p.166-173

Copyright Early American Industries Association Dec 2018 ;ISSN: 0012-8147

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  • Title:
    Bookbinding in Colonial America
  • Author: Samford, C Clement
  • Subjects: Book binding ; Charters ; Colonial period-US ; Wages & salaries ; Workforce
  • Is Part Of: The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc., 2018-12, Vol.71 (4), p.166-173
  • Description: "2 The materials essential to binding were mostly readily obtainable in colonial America. Since the earliest days, boards of wood or pasteboard, leather or vellum, glue, paste, pack thread for bands and linen thread for sewing, have been the basic materials necessary for most bindings. [...]the average book bound in early colonial America consisted of little more than a scrap of leather drawn over the boards, often without any paring of the turned in edges. Gold tooling, however, had been done in the seventeenth century by Ratcliff and Ranger, among others.21 Inventories and accounts of this period list gold leaf letter stamp, and various gilding tools, as well as charges for books bound "gilt." Franklin billed his customers in these cases for the amounts credited to Potts, with no profit for himself.37 There would appear to be a great difference in the amounts paid to Ratcliff in 1663 for binding the Indian Bible, (2s,6d) and to Potts for a Bible, in 1731 (8s) but in addition to the probable size of the books, the former was an edition job, the latter a custom one.
  • Publisher: Delmar: Early American Industries Association
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0012-8147
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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