Book production - Bookbinding - History - United States

Lot Comprises:

Bryn Mawr College, Canaday Library

William Spawn & Thomas E. Kinsella, Ticketed Bookbindings from Nineteenth Century Britain, New Castle, DE, Bryn Mawr College Library / Oak Knoll Press, 1999, fol., publisher's colored printed covers

Hannah D. French, Bookbinding in Early America: seven essays on masters and methods; with catalogues of bookbinding tools prepared by Willman Spawn, Worcester, American Antiquarian Society, 1986, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt

Bookbinding in America: Three Essays [Early American bookbinding by hand, by Hannah Dustin French; The rise of American edition binding, by Joseph W. Rogers; On the rebinding of old books, by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt], New York, R.R. Bowker, 1967, 4to., half black cloth over green cloth gilt

C. Clement Samford & J. M. Hemphill, II, Bookbinding in Colonial Virginia, Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg; Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1966, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

William Spawn & Thomas E. Kinsella, American Signed Bindings through 1876, New Castle & Bryn Mawr, Oak Knoll Press & Bryn Mawr College Library, 2007, 4to., publisher's cloth

Edwin Wolf 2nd, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings, 1825‐1855, Philadelphia, Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990, fol., red cloth embossed with circular Aurora medallion

Sold as a group, not subject to return.