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Baker, Godfrey and CompanyStationers and Bookbinders#59 Sassafras streetPhiladelphiaPennsylvania 1.1. (1791) Philadelphia City Directory. pg 5.  same address in 1793, pg. 7  and1794, pg. 6.2. (1796) Two Godfrey Bakers one shop keeper on 59 Race st. One no occupationlisted 3 Sterling alley : Philadelphia City Directory. pg. 8.3. (1797)  Race St,  listed as merchants  with no notice of bookbinder:Philadelphia city Directory, pg. 21

John and Samuel BakerBookbinders and StationersSterling alley between Cherry alley and  (Race sic)*. PacePhiladelphiaPennsylvania   1.*H. French corrects this to Pace1.  (1785)  Philadelphia City Directory, pg. 8.(1791) Both John and Samuel are missing form the Directory And Godfrey Bakerand Company is listed : Philadelphia City Directory, pg.2.  70 Elm Street, 1793. Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand”from: “Bookbinding in America” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.1103. Samuel Baker died of yellow fever in 1793. Mathew Cary, Short Account ofMalignant Fever in Philadelphia.4. (1796) John Baker Bookseller and Stationer : Philadelphia City Directory,pg. 9.5. Not listed in the 1797 Directory

Samuel Baker*  see John & SamuelBookbinders and StationersSterling AlleyPhiladelphiaPennsylvania, 1.*Died in 1793 of Malignant Fever, in or around, Philadelphia1. (1785)  Philadelphia City Directory, pg. 9.2. (1793) 70 Elm street: Philadelphia City Directory, pg.6.3. (1793) Mathew Carry, A Short Account of Malignant Fever in Philadelphia.

Benjamin Baldwin, 1.’Bookbinder,173 Wash(ington)San Francisco,California,The only bookbinder in the 1852 A.W. Morgan directory (none in the 1846 or1850 or Oct. 52 Bonnard Register of First Class Business Houses in S. F..Possibly San Francisco’s first bookbinder. HOWEVER Lecount advertised in lateryears that he was established in 1849. We have not found any contemporaryindication that this was the case. (see: Cooke & Leount or Lecount and Strong)Was joined by Elliot Thomas in the 1852-53 James M. Parker Directory, Monson,Haswell & Co. San Francisco City Directory 1852-531. (18610 Langley’ directory lists him as Benjamin and the address as 517 Clay2, (1852) directory has B. Baldwin bookbinder at 173 Wash. and E. BaldwinEngraver at 152 Washington st.3.(1856) Baldwin & Emerson, 68 Merchant street: ’56 S.F. Business, Baggett,Joseph & Co.4.(1858) No listing under bookbinders ’58 S.F. Business directory or ’59 S. F.Almanac, Herrick or ’59-60 S. F. Business Directory.5. (1860-61) Baldwin, Benj. 132 Clay. ’60-61 S. F. Business Directory6. (1861) 517 Clay. 1861 S. F. Business Directory7.  Not in 1862 or 1863 Business Directory, Langley’s 1863

Ira C. BaldwinStationer and Fancy Bookbindernext door to the Agricultural BankPittsfieldMassachusetts 1.1. (1829)  “has purchased the establishment of Charles Chapin” Advertisementin the Pittsfield Sun Sept. 24, 1829.