DIES ~ DESIGN ~ DIGESTS ~ DAGUERREOTYPES
- Gaskill, Copper & Fry. 18 Minor Street, Philadelphia, Catalog, "Book of Patterns"
- Samuel Dodd (later Dodd Mead) of New Jersey.
- Charles A. Wells and Benjamin Bradley of Boston (see B. Bradley)
- John Feely of England and New York.
- Gold Tooling: Impressing designs onto leather, paper, or cloth using gold leaf.
- Blind Tooling: Creating similar impressions without gold leaf.
- Decoration: Adding ornamental details to book covers and spines.
- Stencils: The patterns could also be used as stencils for various decorative purposes.
Mathew Carey (1760–1839), was a native of Ireland and an influential economist, political reformer, editor, and publisher whose patrons included Benjamin Franklin and the Marquis de Lafayette. He founded a publishing firm, which soon became among the leading firms in Philadelphia and the young United States. During Carey's lifetime, the publishing firm evolved to M. Carey & Son (1817–1821), M. Carey & Sons (1821–1824), and then to Carey & Lea (1824).[14] Carey retired in 1825, leaving the publishing business to his son, Henry Charles Carey and son-in-law Isaac Lea. Frances Anne Carey (1799–1873) married Isaac Lea, who joined the Careys' publishing firm and became a partner. In 1833, Isaac Lea took on a new partner, William A. Blanchard. After the death of Mathew Carey and retirement of his son Henry Carey, they changed the business name to "Lea and Blanchard." Later Lea took on his own sons, and they changed the name to "Lea Brothers and Company."
Henry Charles Carey (December 15, 1793 – October 13, 1879) In 1821, Carey became the leading partner at Carey & Lea, at the time the largest publishing house in the United States. From 1849–57, Carey was a leading editorialist on political economy at Horace Greeley's New York Daily Tribune
Carey & Lea David Kaser
Messrs. Carey and Lea of Philadelphia: A Study in the History of the Booktrade (Anniversary Collection)
BOSTON
Benjamin Bradley of Boston
https://www.nudelmanbooks.com/pages/books/6116/jared-sparks/binding-cloth-b-bradley-of-boston-1839-stellar-large-quarto-near-fine-condition-the-life-of-george
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John Feely was a nineteenth century book stamp engraver. He hand cut brass stamps to decorate the covers of cloth-covered books."
"In her article “Book-Cover Stamps Engraved by John Feely, 1842-1877” in Decorated Cloth in America (1994), Allen traces John Feely’s journey from Ireland where he was born around 1819, to London where a fifteen-volume set of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poems decorated with Feely stamps was published in 1842. By 1846, Allen found that Feely’s ads were appearing in New York City directories. He described himself in The American Advertiser (1851) as a “Designer and Engraver of Typographical and Bookbinding Ornaments”. Feely signed at least 109 of his more than 260 stamps with one of two monograms: either FEELY or JF joined together as if the two were one letter."
Sources: https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2022/02/john-feely/
Book-Cover Stamps Engraved by John Feely, 1842-1877”
Other
Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904), Boston.
https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2024/05/sarah-wyman-whitman/
Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), New York.
https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2023/07/book-designs-armstrong/
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