I'm in Portland, OR, not in Boston, but...
There is an online database to which our library subscribes:
"City Directories Online."
Boston is included, but only up until 1917.
He is, however, listed in the 1917 volume, on p. 1337, as two
listings:
"Sanford, Peleg B pres 78 Bedford h 54 Wheatland Av Dor"
and
"Sanford, P B Co bookbinders 78 Bedford"
Hope this is helpful.
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Kaimowitz, Jeffrey wrote:
> That is a great lead. Now if someone in Boston would check a city directory
> for the P. B. Sanford in the 1920's, we might be able to pin this down.
> Thanks very much.
>
> Dr. Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz
> Head Librarian, The Watkinson Library
> & Curator, The Enders Ornithology Collection
> Trinity College
> Hartford, CT 06106-3100
> (860) 297-2266
> FAX: (860) 297-2251
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: White, Eric [mailto:ewhite@post.cis.smu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:23 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: Binder Sanford
>
>
> Bridwell LIbrary has a Matteo de Ferrara, Vita de sancto Hieronymo
> (Cambridege MA: Cygnet Press [1928]), bound by "P.B. Sanford Co."
>
> Nice little 12mo, full pigskin, spine gilt. Our record has Black Sun
> Books's 1988 remark that this copy is in "the rare deluxe binding." You
> might check other copies. Sounds like Cambridge is a lead.
>
> Eric White
> Bridwell Library
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: O'Keefe, Doris N. [mailto:DOKeefe@mwa.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:09 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: Binder Sanford
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaimowitz, Jeffrey
>
> In our collection, we are cataloging a book from the later 19th or early
> 20th century with the binder's stamp: P. (or F.) B. Sanford. Is anyone
> familiar with this binder
>
>
>
> The American Antiquarian Society has about 15 bindings by P.B. Sanford --
> most of which seem to have been commissioned by John W. Farwell (1843-1929).
> But we never found out anything else in the course of our authority work, so
> I too would be interested in learning more.
>
> Doris O'Keefe
> Senior Cataloger
> American Antiquarian Society
> 185 Salisbury St.
> Worcester, Mass. 01609
> dokeefe@mwa.org
>