Description1.Hannah French, "Early American Bookbinding by Hand" from: "Bookbinding in America" Lehmann-Haupt ed., 1967, pg.100. 2. Nicholas Buttolph was the father in law of John Phillips, bookbinder. 'John Phillips was born in Salem Mass. June 22,1701, the son of Samuel and Sarah Phillips.He apprenticed to Col. Henchman as a Stationer and Bookseller and married, in 1723, to Mary, the eldest daughter of Nicholas Buttolph (1694) a Bookbinder and Bookseller.' History of the Military Company of Massachusetts,Oliver Ayer Roberts pg. 421. 3 Nicholas 'opened his book shop in 1690 it burned down in 1711 but he continued on in business.'. Thomas Goddard Wright, Literary Culture in early New England, 1620-1730 4. 'Nicholas Buttolph was an officer of militia, father of John and died on Januaru 29, 1736-7 age 51. His tomb is No.60, in the Granary ground. Buttolph street (Boston) derives its name from his family.' History of the Ancient and Hounorable Artillery Company, Zachariah Gardner Whitman 1842 pg. 232. 5. "joined Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston in 1692". The Grolier Club, Catalogue of Ornamental Leather Bookbindings, pg . 93.