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![kluba_bindersticket_joannekluba.jpg][1]![kluba_bindersticket_paperbirds.jpg][2]Joanne KlubaBookbinderSt. LouisMissouri. (2003-)Joanne Kluba runs a small hand book bindery called Paper Birds, in St. Louis,Missouri, operating since 2003. She is a member of the Guild of Bookworkers.She was taught bookbinding primarily by Richard Baker, conservator and binderin St. Louis. She has also studied bookbinding and book arts from Hedi Kyle,Dominic Riley, Laura Wait, and   Daniel Essig. images courtesy Joanne Kluba. Both were designed and letterpress printed bythe binder and business owner, Joanne Kluba. “I attach them to the back endleaf or inside back cover of the books I bind.” [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1899/kluba_bindersticket_joannekluba.jpg (kluba_bindersticket_joannekluba.jpg) [2]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1899/kluba_bindersticket_paperbirds.jpg (kluba_bindersticket_paperbirds.jpg)

William T. KnappBookbinder8 N. First, (1842)16 Chestnut, (1847-1848)59 Chestnut, (1850)St Louis 1.1. A Directory of the St Louis Book and Printing Trades to 1850, by DavidKaser, The New York Public Library, 1961, pg.25

Sir Andrew KnightBookbinderNew HavenConnecticut 1.1. (1815) Native of England, died at the age of 73. “In his merry momentsstyled himself “Book-binder to the King”” :  the Rhode Island AmericanProvidence RI. December 21, 1815

Edward S. Knowles Co.Bookbinder24 Second StreetSan FranciscoCalifornia 1.1. 1904, Crocker Langley S.F. Business Directory.2. Edward Knowles Co. 1905, Crocker Langley S.F. Business Directory.3. This area was burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. No listing Knowles in1907-1910, Crocker Langley Business Directories.

General Henry Knox ( b.1750 d. 1806)Bookbinderopposite the west end of the Town (Old State) HouseBostonMass. 1.Apprenticed at the bookstore of Daniel Henchman’s bookstore. Samuel Adams Drake, Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston pg. 851. “General Knox was a Bookbinder, and pursued that occupation, opposite thewest end of the Town (Old State) House; and was a founder of a corps ofGrenadiers in Boston, among whom he acquired the first rudiments of militarytactics.”History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, By ZachariahGardner Whitman,1842, pg.301-302.2.  Bookbinder, Patriot, Revolutionary War General, Washington’s Chief ofArtillery, and  this country’s first Secretary of War. General Knox Museum.www.generalknoxmuseum.org/knoxbio.html3. 1771, Cornhill,  John Langdon and Henry Knox both apprenticed with Warton &Bowers. J. Leander Bishop, History of American Manufacturers, 1868, pg. 192