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HolbrookBookbinder & papermakerEast VillageVermont1().”The Brattleboro Bookstore, William Fessenden died suddenly in Northampton, Massachusetts on January 20, 1815. His widow was Patty Holbrook, the daughter of John Holbrook of Brattleboro. Mrs. Patty Fessenden owned the large two-and-a-half story brick building that William had built specifically for a bookstore.This bookstore is mentioned in an August 20, 1817 deed that was drawn up when Patty Fessenden bought the strip of land that became the lane, or alley between the present-day Richardson Block and the American Building.A few feet north of our old hovel is a block or row of brick buildings, used principally for merchants’ stores. One of them is a bookstore and bindery, in which extensive business is carried on in connection with the paper-making and printing establishments before mentioned.Letter Written In Brattleboro 1836,Stephen Greenleaf, Jr.”. http://brattleborohistory.com/2. (1824)(+-) Paper is manufactured here in Holbrook’s paper mill to the amount of 19 or 1$2,000. and in his printing and bookbinding establishment business is done to the amount of 20 to $25000 annually. A Gazetteer of the state of Vermont, Zadock Thompson, page 70.

Bookbinderalmost opposite the Conestogoe Waggon, in Market Street PhiladelphiaPennsylvania ( 1747) 1.1. “Binds new and old books, in any sort of binding, in the best and neatest manner”…”Likewise merchants and shopkeepers account books, ruled to any pattern”… The Pennsylvania Gazette,Philadelphia August, 27, 1747.

Thomas C. HollisBookbinder108 SalemBostonMassachusetts 1.1. (1835) Boston City Directory2. (1842-43) residence: 3 Washington. New Haven Directory for 1842-43, JamesPatter.

Oliver HolmanStationer and Blank Book Manufacturer124 State Street, opposite Broad StreetBostonMassachusetts, 1853. 1.1. Massachusetts Register for the year 1853, George Adams.

Latham HolmesBookbinder290 Pearl StreetNew YorkNew York ( 1819)  1.1.  Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.106.