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Wiliam Lang  (Long? ) Bookseller and Bookbinder* At the Gilt Bible, Marlboro’ -Street Boston Massachusetts ( 1760-75) 1.&2.*Isiah Thomas 1. Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.101.from: The Grolier Club, Catalogue ofOrnamental Leather Bookbindings, pg. 962.” a Scotchman”. Leander Bishop, History of American Manufacturer, 1868, pg.192.

John LangdonBookseller, stationer and bookbinderCornhillBostonMassachusetts ( 1770) 1.& 2.1. Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.101.2. John Langdon and Henry Knox  both apprenticed with Warton & Bowers.  J.Leander Bishop, History of American Manufacturers, 1868, pg. 192.

William LaplainBookseller, Printer and BookbinderMarket street opposite the London Coffee housePhiladelphia Pennsylvania 1.1.(1772) “Just arrived from Shrewsbury, in Old England” Books bound in all the various bindings. The Pennsylvania Packet, August 24,1772.

Charles C. Larkey*Bookbinderrear 33 EssexNew YorkNew York (1839). 1.*see Hutttner for Larkey’s New York career 1832-1839.1. 1839, Longworth New York City Directory, pg. 394.

Benjamin LarkinBookbinder and Bookseller46 CornhillBostonMassachusetts, 1. 1. (1789) Boston City Directory. pg. 28  (same listing in 1796, 1798)  (Ebenezer Larkin jun. Bookbinder and Bookseller is at 50  then 47, Cornhill  )2. (1800) Boston City Directory. ( an Ebenezer Larkin Bookseller was at 47Corhill. ) Ebenezer Larkin, Bookbinder, Joseph T. Buckingham, Annals of theMassachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, pg. 29.(same addresss 1803)3.( 1789-1803)  Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from:”Bookbinding in America” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.101.4. Bookseller and Bookbinder, 47 Cornhill, (later Washington) Larkin hadserved a regular apprenticeship as a bookbinder. He would  die, in Boston. in1812 aged 42. Joseph T. , Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable MechanicAssociation, pg. 29..  A Benjamin Larkin, Bookbinder was at 46 Cornhill. seeBenjamin BuckinghamLarkin.