Title: Bookbinding in early America :
Authors: French, Hannah D.; Spawn, Willman.; American Antiquarian Society.
Date: 1986
Publisher: American Antiquarian Society,
Physical description: xxiv, 230 p. : ill., facsims. ; 28 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Abstract: Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Contents: Scottish-American bookbindings -- The amazing career of Andrew Barclay, Scottish bookbinder, of Boston -- "Bound in Boston by Henry B. Legg" -- Caleb Buglass, binder of the proposed Book of Common Prayer, Philadelphia, 1786 -- John Roulstone's Harvard bindings -- Full gilt and extra gilt -- Thomas Jefferson's last bookbinder : Frederick August Mayo.
Notes: "A publication of the American Antiquarian Society's Program in the History of the Book in American Culture".
Subject headings (LCSH): Bookbinders--United States--Biography.; Bookbinding--United States--History.