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"Describes and illustrates 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations, from the 1750s through 1876. Identifies 233 binders from 19 states and 84 cities and towns from Maine to New Orleans and as far west as Little Rock. Provides brief descriptions of bindings and explanatory notes for many binders"--Provided by publisher.

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English
Pages
299

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American signed bindings through 1876
2007, Oak Knoll Press, Bryn Mawr College Library
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Table of Contents

Identifying bookbinders
Signed bindings
American signed bindings through 1876
Bibliography
Indexes
Authors, editors, and titles
Provenance
Printers, publishers, and booksellers
Ticket and tool engravers
Bookbinders.

Edition Notes

"This catalogue accompanies an exhibition titled 'Bound and Determined: Identifying American Bookbindings', on display at the Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, January 30 to May 30, 2007". It follows our earlier catalogue titled 'Ticketed Bindings From Nineteenth-Century Britain (1999). The present catalogue describes many of the acquisitions made by the library since its 1983 publication on American bookbinding, 'Bookbinding in America: 1680-1910, from the Collection of Frederick E. Maser."-Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Published in
New Castle, DE, Bryn Mawr, PA
Genre
Exhibitions.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
686.3097309/033
Library of Congress
Z270.U5 S63 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
299, [1] p. (the last page blank) :
Number of pages
299

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21447516M
Internet Archive
americansignedbi0000spaw
ISBN 13
9781584562085
LCCN
2007034576
OCLC/WorldCat
167502300
Library Thing
5126222
Goodreads
3297786

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