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Walter MacAlpineBookseller and Bookbindernear the Mill-BridgeBostonMassachusetts (1743) 1.1. from Scotland. Brother William MacAlpine Bookbinder.   The Grolier Club,Catalogue of Ornamental Leather Bookbindings, pg. 95. mentioned in IsiahThomas.2. in Union Street  near the Town Dock. ibid. 3. later: Connecticut.  ibid

William MacAlpineBookbinder and Bookseller and PrinterMarlborough StreetBostonMassachusetts (1753-1776) 1.1. Learned bookbinding from his brother Walter.  William “was a Royalist andleft Boston with the British troops in 1776”  The Grolier Club, Catalogue ofOrnamental Leather Bookbindings, pg. 96. mentioned by Isiah Thomas

Barnard Brian MacanultyBookbinder, Paper-ruler, and PublisherSalem cir.1794-1811Mass.Tapley states that Macanulty was born in Ireland and came to Salem, fromPhiladelphia about 1794. After some early sucess Macanulty would spend thelast forty years of his life in the poor house D. 1848Salem Imprints 1768- 1825, by Harriet Silvester Tapley pgs 188-189

Robert MacGillBookseller, Stationer and BookbinderThe Corner of Laetitia court, Market street.PhiladelphiaPennsylvania 1. 1.(1774) Pennsylvania Gazette, January 26, 1774 2. (1786)  Bookseller, 212 Water st. New York.  H. J. Sachs & Co 1905 Facsimile  of 1786 New York Directory. pg 64.Bookbinder and BooksellerCorner of Laetitia Court, afterward in Second StreetPhiladelphiaPennsylvania ( 1771-1778)  “and in 1778 (he) removed to New York” Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.113(1800) Bookseller, New York City Directory pg. 17.

![IFMack.jpg][1]I. F. Mack & Bro.Bookbinders and StationersSanduskyOhio Image collection of ABM 00080 prov. TJ. [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/457/IFMack.jpg (I. F. Mack)