Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Bookbinder's ticket, "Samuel Taylor, Book-Binder at the Book & Hand." Engraved bookplate, 4 1/4 x 3 inches; minor wear, Taylor's name in early manuscript in lower margin, apparently not used. Philadelphia, circa 1760s

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Taylor advertises a variety of binding services; "he likewise sells Bibles, Common Prayer Books, Spelling Books, Shop Books . . . Pens, Pencills, and most other sorts of Stationary Wares." One of these tickets appears on the binding of a 1765 book at Princeton University.