Bookbinders

This is a work in progress and, as such, has not been edited. Please check our data against the citations provided prior to any publication. Not all the tickets are binders tickets some may be booksellers tickets. We scan all the ephemera, in the collection, and at this point this seem to be the best place for them to reside. We welcome comments and corrections. We would be grateful for any original or scanned binders' tickets, labels or ephemera to add to the collection. All scanned ephemera is in the collection of the ABM unless otherwise noted. Standard reference for bookbinders are as follows;

Spawn - Am. : Willman Spawn, & Thomas Kinsella, "American Signed Bindings through 1876". Oak Knoll & Bryn Mawr 2007

Spawn - Br. : Spawn, William & Thomas E. Kinsella, Ticketed Bookbindings from Nineteenth-Century Britain

I. Thomas: Isiah Thomas, "History of Printing in America" various

Papan.: "Early American Bookbindings from the Collection of Michael Papantonio", The American Antiquarian Society, 1985

French: Hannah French,: "Early American Bookbinding by Hand" from: "Bookbinding in America" Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967.

Packer: Packer, Maurice" Bookbinders of Victorian London, The British Library, 1991.

Huttner: Sidney F. Huttner and Elizabeth Stege Huttner. A Register of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers and Publishers in New York City,1821-42