Title
The Boston Almanac and Directory.
Coverage
Boston:
Publisher
Sampson, Davenport and Co.,
Date
[1876], with its brass stamping die, ca. 1877.
Subject
Gift of Todd Pattison.
Description
This brass stamping die was used to decorate the covers of the Boston Almanac. In the late 1820s and early 1830s, bookbinders in England adapted iron printing presses to decorate bindings in a way that allowed flat cloth and leather binding cases to be stamped or embossed in only a single impression. The first gold-stamped cloth cases were produced in England in 1832, and the technology was adopted in the United States by 1834. Soon afterward, steam-powered, cloth-stamping presses were introduced in the 1850s.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School