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Book chapter
Published 1993
A Register of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers in New York City, 1821-1842, 7 - 12
The Register collects some 5,000 names and 50,000 addresses for craftspeople working in trades related to printing and publishing in New York City during the period 1821-1842. The Introduction, the only element offered here, discusses in detail the methodology used to compile the Register and details the joys and difficulties of working with early city directories as primary sources.
Book chapter
Introduction to James B. Nicholson, Manual of the Art of Bookbinding (1856)
Published 1980
A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding
Introduction to the 1980 Garland reprint edition of James B. Nicholson's Manual of the Art of Bookbinding, often cited as the first American manual of the craft. Nicholson (1820-1901), apprenticed with Weaver & Warnock, Philadelphia, in 1848 partnered with James Pawson to form the bookbinding firm Pawson & Nicholson, Bookbinders, (1848-1911). He was a dedicated Odd Fellow, becoming Seventeenth Grand Sire of the Sovereign Grand Lodge (i.e. chief executive of the national organization) in 1862.