A Publication of the American Antiquarian Society’s Program in the History of the Book in American Culture

Author: Hannah D. French

Foreword: Marcus McCorison

Catalogues of Bookbinding Tools: Willman Spawn

Publisher/Date: American Antiquarian Society 1986, published at $49.95

ISBN: 0912-29676-3

Format/Condition: New cloth hardcover book is in fine condition. No dust jacket. 230 pages, index, appendixes, profusely illustrated.

Description: Contains previously published and unpublished works by Hannah French. Articles on Andrew Barclay, an early Boston binder, Henry B. Legg, Caleb Buglass, a Philadelphia binder, John Roulstone’s Harvard bindings, and Thomas Jefferson’s last binder, Frederick August Mayo. Also chapter on Gilt and Full Gilt