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N. W. LefavorPublishers, Booksellers and BookbindersNo. 68 Exchange St.above Lowell & Senter’s Jewelery Storeresidence 41 MiddlePortland.Oregon. 1.1. Portland Reference Book and City Directory for 1850-51, Becket.display ad.pg. 2582. (1849) Mercantile Union, Business Directory for New England, pg. 63.

Henry Bilson LeggeBookbinderCongress StreetBoston 1.See : Early American Bookbindings, from the collection of Michael Papantonio,The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York 1972. see entry #20, 23,25. active cir,18031. (1798) Elliot street. Boston City Directory (not listed in the 1796Directory).2. (1800)  Congress Street (no number). Boston City Directory,3. (1803) no. 10 State Street. Boston City Directory no listing in 18054. (1804) Died aged 41. Democrat, Boston, Nov. 14, 1804.5. (1805) “James F. Fletcher… Respectfully informs the public, and thefriends and customers of the late Mr. Henry Legge, deceased,(in particular)that he continues to carry on the above business at his late shop, no. 10 MA.Feb., 23,1805.  /  Died in Boston aged 41. Massachusetts Spy, Worcester MA.

Henry Bilson LeggeBookbinderCongress StreetBoston 1.See : Early American Bookbindings, from the collection of Michael Papantonio,The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York 1972. see entry #20, 23,25. active cir,18031. (1798) Elliot street. Boston City Directory (not listed in the 1796Directory).2. (1800)  Congress Street (no number). Boston City Directory,3. (1803) no. 10 State Street. Boston City Directory no listing in 18054. (1804) Died aged 41. Democrat, Boston, Nov. 14, 1804.5. (1805) “James F. Fletcher… Respectfully informs the public, and thefriends and customers of the late Mr. Henry Legge, deceased,(in particular)that he continues to carry on the above business at his late shop, no. 10 MA.Feb., 23,1805.  /  Died in Boston aged 41. Massachusetts Spy, Worcester MA.

Peter Leibert BookbinderPhiladelphiaPennsylvania 1*(1756) “In 1756 peter Leibert had advertised that Saur turned his binding business to him and in his will Saur named Liebert a guardian of his younger children” Germantown and the Germans, Edwin Wolf II,pg. 1031.(1774)Pennsylvania Archives, Philadelphia Sales Tax list pg.338.1.(1778)The Saur German Bible was the first Bible to be printed withAmerican type…” Peter Leibert, a bookbinder in Germantown and a good friend of the Saur Family, bought from Hall what was left and in later years when he became a printer, reprinted missing sheets as needed and bound and sold the Bibles” Germantown and the Germans, Edwin Wolf II, pg. 112.

James LeishmanBookbinder”lately removed from Burlington  to Trenton and advertising bookbinding andrepairing(1780) 1.1. b. Callandar Scotland 1744,  d. near the St. Lawrence in 1810.”…”havinglately removed from Burlington  to Trenton”… “He was living in Cherry Valleyat the time of the massacre and his wife was taken by the Indians with herchildren on the road to Canada But she was returned with other captives” Proceedings of the N.J. Historical Society, New Series Vol.V, 1920, pg. 2612. worked for Issac Collins  and went to New York in 1790. ibid pg. 262.3. Princeton has a copy of “The Constitutions of Several Independent States ofAmerica” published by Thomas Bee, John Witherspoon and  Oliver Wolcott. Thebinding is “evidently” by James Leishman.