Catalogue of Ornamental Leather Bookbindings Executed in America Prior to 1850Grolier club, 1907 - 106 pages |
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5x 3 inches 7x4 inches ARCHIBALD E back divided back gold rolled back in compartments back in gold Bible binder and bookseller binder's ticket blind band blind rolled borders blind tooled bookbinding Boston Bound in crimson Bound in dark Bound in light Bound in red center panel Champley Common Prayer copy corners by gold early bindings edition end-papers and edges exhibition fillets flowers Frontispiece G. B. Ellis gold and blind gold lines gold rolled border gold tooled panels Grolier Club inner border Isaiah Thomas James John leather light brown calf marbled end marbled end-papers Megarey narrow blind rolls narrow gold rolled New-York owner palmette panel is formed papers Philadelphia plates engraved Printed printer Published red morocco rolled and tooled Samuel small gold tools small tools Stereotyped straight-grained morocco Street Thomas Savery title in center upper cover volume William William Loring x 3 inches yellow end-papers York Weekly Journal
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Page 37 - Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of the city of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals.
Page 8 - That the said Church shall maintain the doctrines of the Gospel, as now held by the Church of England; and shall adhere to the liturgy of the said Church, as far as shall be consistent with the American revolution, and the constitutions of the respective states.
Page 90 - Modern bookbinding practically considered : A lecture read before the Grolier Club of New York, March 25, 1885, with additions and new illustrations; by William Matthews.
Page 74 - LONDON, Printed for Humphrey Mofeley, and are to be fold at his Shop, at the Princes Armes in St.
Page 8 - Such a strong party has been raised against the alterations that I am afraid we should not be able to adopt the Book at present without danger of a Schism — the ostensible objection is that they were made without the sanction of a Bishop, but the Thanksgiving for the Fourth of July in all probability is one principal cause of the opposition.
Page 95 - Crown in Cornhill, Boston ; where the said Fry is ready to accommodate all Gentlemen Merchants and Tradesmen with Setts of 'Accompt Books after the most neatest Manner.
Page 91 - Andrews, William Loring. A short historical sketch of the art of bookbinding, by William L.
Page 33 - The Book of Common Prayer, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; translated into the Mohawk or Iroquois language .. by the Rev.
Page 90 - A lecture on bookbinding as a fine art; delivered before the Grolier Club, February 26, 1885.
Page 95 - Books after the neatest Manner. And whereas it has been the common Method of the most curious Merchants in Boston, to procure their Books from London. This is to acquaint those Gentlemen, that I the said Fry will sell all Sorts of Accompt Books done after the most acute Manner, for Twenty per Cent cheaper than they can have them from London. I return the Public Thanks for following the Directions of my former Advertisement for gathering Rags, and hope they will Continue the like Method, having received...