Waste Not, Want Not, and Other Stories.

Maria Edgeworth.

Waste Not, Want Not, and Other Stories.

New York:

James Miller,

n.d.

RBS owns 78 bindings impressed with decorative brass stamps made by John Feely (ca. 1819–1878). John Feely was an Irishman who worked in London and then immigrated to the United States with his family around 1843. Feely specialized in creating metal stamps for book covers, as well as in making typographic ornaments, both of which he cut by hand on hard-rolled brass. Unlike many die engravers of his day, Feely incised a portion of his stamp with either “JF” or “FEELY,” as seen in this example.

From the collection of Rare Book School