Description*  Hannah French, "Early American Bookbinding by Hand" from: "Bookbinding in America" Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.104. (1760) Advertisement for the sale of land in the possession of Samuel Brown, Book-binder. The New York Mercury, March 31, 1760. 1. (1761) Catalouge of Ornamental Leather Bookbindings Executed in America prior to 1850  pg. 99. 2. (1755) Became a Freeman October 21, 1755. Collections of the N. Y. Historical Society, The Burghers of New Amsterdam and The Freemen of New York 1765-1866 pg. 183. 3. (1765)  "Charles Morse moves to the house...being the second House above Mr. Samuel Brown's Printer and Book Binder..." The New York Gazette or the Weekly Post-Boy June 20, 1765. The Arts and Crafts in New York, The New York Historical Society, 1936, vol LXIX, pg. 244.