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This video discusses the colonial emigrant bookbinder William Trickett (ca. 1738–1780), the only American whose ticketed bindings can be found among the records of the Continental
Congress, the first government of the United States of America (USA). Trickett was a stationer, a Freemason, and may have been a Patriot during the Revolutionary War.[1] As of 2017, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) retains probably the
largest collection of Trickett bindings. Biographical information about Trickett, combined with his well-preserved handiwork, e.g., his distinct style of using tickets, tools, and materials to construct and decorate the covers of the books he sold, help to unravel a mystery, and what was once thought to be an impossible task, that of identifying who bound-by-hand blankbooks that now contain the USA’s earliest manuscript records.[2] Presented in this video are Trickett’s five “tickets,” a type of trade or business card attached inside his bindings, serving as a signature. Ticketed Trickett bindings help to attribute some of NARA’s twenty-nine additional, but ticketless, originals to him. The significant content captured in Trickett’s blankbooks includes the Founders’ real-time minute entries, indicating the USA’s declaration of independence from Britain.[3] These bindings should be preserved as artifacts
and are as American as the words contained within.[4]

[1] In this instance, a Patriot refers to an American colonist who rebelled against the British in 1776. The American Revolution lasted from 1775 to 1783.
[2] This essay is dedicated to the memory of Willman (1920–2010) and Carol (1929–2016) Spawn. I adopted the methodology they developed over sixty years, that of connecting biographical facts about bookbinders with the material features they leave behind on the books they made and decorated. Later, Tom Kinsella joined their efforts. They encouraged my work and taught me their techniques. In addition to providing me with numerous photocopies of their articles, they shared a six-page document of unpublished Trickett research with me, referred to herein as “Spawn’s unpublished research.”
[3] Trickett-bound: Rough Journal, Volume 3, 25 May–24 July 1776. It contains the 4 July 1776 entry on pp. 94–97 and an 11 July 1776 entry on p. 124, indicating that Congress paid Trickett for stationery; see Appendix 4. Trickett’s Accounts, #2. Papers of the Continental Congress. Rough Journals, 1774– 1789. Record Group 360. National Archives Building, Washington D.C., Entry 4 July 1776: https://www.fold3.com/image/246/455191; accessed on 20 March 2017.
[4] Dambrogio, Jana. “Made in the U.S.A.: Early American Bindings 1750–1860 at the National Archives.” Presented at the Book and Paper Group Session, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 39th Annual Meeting, 31 May–3 June 2011, Philadelphia, Penn. Abstract published in the Book and Paper Group Annual 30 (2011): 35; Dambrogio, Jana. “Trickett’s Tickets: Continental Congress Bookbinder and his Blank Books [Made in the USA], 1776–1780.” Public lecture given in the William McGowan Theater at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., 12 April 2012:    • Trickett's Tickets: Continental Congress B...  ; http://bit.ly/TrickettsTickets; accessed on 30 March 2017.

For a published account of William Trickett's tickets and biography, see the article "Trickett’s Tickets" by Jana Dambrogio in Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding, Volume 4, edited by Julia Miller, published by the Legacy Press, 2017. http://www.thelegacypress.com/suave-m...

video citation:
Dambrogio, Jana. “Trickett’s Tickets: Continental Congress Bookbinder and his Blank Books Made in the USA, 1776–1780.” Public lecture given at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., 12 April 2012:    • Trickett's Tickets: Continental Congress B...  ; accessed [date] or http://bit.ly/TrickettsTickets: accessed [date].

Acknowledgments
With infinite gratitude and appreciation to the following individuals: the late Willman Spawn and late Carol Spawn, Andrew Spawn and family, NARA colleagues, MIT Libraries colleagues, Sheri Hill, Digital Imaging Specialist (NARA), the late Melvin (Mel) J. Wachowiak, Jr., E. Keats Webb, Boston Athenæum staff, Glenys A. Waldman, Librarian, The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania; Jane Fitzgerald, NARA Archivist; Christopher M. Gray; Ayako Letizia, Conservation Associate, MIT Libraries; Tom Kinsella, Professor of Literature, Director of the South Jersey Culture and History Center, Stockton University, thanks to Holly McIntyre DeWitt, former NARA employee, who brought the Trickett Freemason ticket to my attention and to Pat Anderson, Rene Wolcott, Emily Hishta Cohen, Daniel Starza Smith, Julia Miller, Cathy Baker; and my colleagues, family, and friends.