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![middleton.dawson.quebec.jpg][1] Middleton & DawsonBookbinders &. c & c.Quebecimage courtesy: Vernon Wiering, Wiering Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan.1. J. Thomas Dawson  (31 Ursule street). Middleton & Dawson, proprietors andpublishers, Shaw’s Building foot Mountain hill, St Peter’s Ward, Quebec. (poortranscription of): The Quebec & Levis,Directory for 1871-72 [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1468/middleton.dawson.quebec.jpg (middleton.dawson.quebec.jpg)

![stamp.bookbindery.herzog.c1910.jpg][1]HerzogBookbinderStockholmStampimage courtesy: Vernon Wiering, Wiering Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan.  [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1477/stamp.bookbindery.herzog.c1910.jpg (stamp.bookbindery.herzog.c1910.jpg)

![akerman.jpg][1]Charles Akerman4 Union BuildingProvidenceRhode Island 1.1. (1849) Mercantile Union, Business Directory for New England, pg. 2562. () Akerman Co*, Blank Book Manufacturers, 5 Washington Rownot in SpawnTrade card image courtesy: Vernon Wiering, Wiering Books, Grand Rapids,Michigan![akerman2.jpg][2]1. Founded February 15th 1836. In 1858 a co-partnership was formed with C. F.Rawson and Stephen H. Hall under the name Akerman and Co.. History of theState of Rhode Island with illustrations, Albert J. Wright, Philadelphia,1878.Binders ticket  found on a copy of  “The dramatic Works of Shakespeare” pub.by N. Rowe, 1849, 1/4  bound in green leather and red cloth. From thecollection of Steve Beare. [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1478/akerman.jpg (akerman.jpg) [2]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1478/akerman2.jpg (akerman2.jpg)

![barlow.grandrapids.b.jpg][1]![barlowbr.jpg][2]![barlow2.grandrapids.jpg][3]Barlow Brothers, (John B. & Herman G.)BookbindersRandall Block, foot of Lyon StreetGrand RapidsMichigan. est. 1877, 1.not in Spawn1. ” Their business has grown until it amounts to from $30,000 to $40,000yearly.”  Baxter, Albert, History or the City of Grand Rapids,1891,  chapter,XXX.2. 5 & 7 Pearl Street. Ad. dated 1895 in collection Vernon Wiering.Barlow Brothers ticket and rolls found on Kuiper, E. Voto Dordraceno,Amsterdam, Wormser, 1894.   Rebound by Barlow. Cloth typical diagonal brown,tan, rustimages courtesy: Vernon Wiering, Wiering Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan.Ticket on top right:  Collection ABM,000294, prov.TJ![barlowbros.rolls.ticket.jpg][4] [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1480/barlow.grandrapids.b.jpg (barlow.grandrapids.b.jpg) [2]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1480/barlowbr.jpg (barlowbr.jpg) [3]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1480/barlow2.grandrapids.jpg (barlow2.grandrapids.jpg) [4]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1480/barlowbros.rolls.ticket.jpg (barlowbros.rolls.ticket.jpg)

![edmunds.murray.1854.jpg][1](Jacob) Edmonds and (Richard Morgan) RenmantsBookbindersLondon 1860’s,  11. Spawn 438-449 & 178  examples from books dated in the 1850’s  seem to havered ink and those dated in the 1860’s seem to have black ink.image courtesy: Vernon Wiering, Wiering Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1485/edmunds.murray.1854.jpg (edmunds.murray.1854.jpg)