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Thomas GassonBookbinder6 Carter’s AlleyPhiladelphiaPennsylvania ( 1820) 1.1. Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.112

James Gay BookbinderMassachusetts 1.1. (1834) Listed as a bookbinder in: 23d Congress, first session, Massachusetts Resolutions Doc. no 175, March 1834

Jacob GeigerBookbinderwith:  Amos H. Shultz & CoSt LouisMissouri 1.1. Kennedy’s 1860 St Louis City Directory

James Gentle*BookbinderSpruce street between Front and SecondPhiladelphiaPennsylvania. 1.*James Gentle, now of Philadelphia,Bookbinder” was a prisoner in England & beyond the sea until within about a year last Past” :Names  of Persons Who Took the oath of Alleance to the State of Pennsylvania Between the Years 1777-1789, Thompson Westcott1. (1785) Philadelphia City Directory, pg. 29.(1791) 80 Chestnut street : Philadelphia City Directory, pg. 46.(1793) 26 Chestnut street: Philadelphia : Philadelphia City Directory, pg. 31.Same address in 1794 pg. 55.2. (1795) Chestnut street near Delaware : Philadelphia City Directory, pg.140. same address in  1776, 26 Chestnut, pg. 693. ( 1785-1796) Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from:”Bookbinding in America” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.112

Samuel GerrishBookseller & BookbinderAt the Sign of the Buck in Marlborough-Street (1708)North side of the Town-House (1716) BostonMassachusetts, 1.1.  Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.100.2. (1718) “Indenture of apprenticeship of Thomas Hancock, son of the Rev. JohnHancock, minister of Lexington, to Samuel Gerrish, bookbinder, May 20, 1718.”Catalogue of the Collections of the Bostonian Society in the Old State houseBoston (1902)