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Charles WellesBookbinder1 Water StreetBostonMassachusetts ( 1820) 1.1.  Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.102.

Edmund WellingtonBookbinderNewportNew Hampshire 1.1. ()  The History of Newport, New Hampshire from 1766- 1878, by EdmundWheeler pg. 95.

![wells_1830_binders_ticket.jpg][1]Charles A. Wells*Bookbinder and Blank book ManufacturerNo. 4 Cornhill, entrance no 1. Water streetBostonMassachusetts 3.*Early American Bookbindings, from the collection of Michael Papantonio, The Pierpont Morgan Library ,New York 1972image: Collection of Steve Beare.  The C. A. Wells binder’s ticket  is on therear paste down of _Youth’s Keepsake; A Christmas and new Year’s Gift forYoung People_. Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1831 (copyright September 23, 1830).1. (1819) “respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has takenthat old established Bookbindery in the chamber over Messrs, Munroe & FrancisBookstore2. (1820) ” An Act to alter and change the manes of the persons thereonmentioned. Charles Wells, of Boston, Bookbinder, shall be allowed to take themane of Charles Allen Wells.”  : The Boston Intelligencer & EveningGazette,pg. [4], vol. 6, July, 1820(1820) Charles A. Wells admitted to the Association: Joseph T. Buckingham,Annals of The Massachusetts  Charitable Mechanic Association, 1853, pg. 172.3. (June 17,1820) Charles Wells, of Boston, bookbinder, shall be allowed totake the name of Charles Allen Wells. list of persons whose Names Have BeenChanged in Massachusetts  1780-18834. (1820) 1 Water st. cor. of Washington st. Boston City Director5. (1835) 1 and 7 Water street  Boston City Directory (1834) Listed as a bookbinder in: 23d Congress, first session, Massachusetts Resolutions Doc. no 175, March 18346. (1837) Exhibited a specimen of Embossing on morocco, a Specimen of Edge-gilding and ten well made Plough Knives. First Exhibition and Fair of theMassachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. September 10, 1837 pg 92 [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/670/wells_1830_binders_ticket.jpg (wells_1830_binders_ticket.jpg)

Charles C. WellsBookbinder111 Fulton StreetNew YorkNew York 1.1. (1834) Edwin Williams, New York as it is: Containing a GeneralDescription…(a Stranger’s Guide) pg. 2272. (1832-1844) “At least until 1832 he was described as a bookbinder, afterwhich he was listed as a bookseller, in 1838 as a publisher, and in 1844simply as “books”  Edwin Wolf 2nd,  American Embossed Leather Bindings,1825-1855, pg. 33.3. (1835) Bindery was destroyed by fire. Reported in Norfolk, Advertiser,Dedham, Mass., Aug 15, 1835.

Robert WellsBookbinderLondonEngland 1.1. (1777-1795) Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts