Served as Chapter Chair from 1980 - 1984
Sam Ellenport was born in 1943 and was educated at Amherst, Brown University and Oxford. A sometime teacher of history, he bought Harcourt Bindery in 1973 and remained its owner and later president until 2007. Ellenport has been the owner of Chagford Antiquarians, Inc. since 2012. He's an active book collector, lecturer and writer about the history of bookbinding. Among his writings is the The Future of Hand Bookbinding published in 1993 and Reflections of Two Craftsmen: Sam Ellenport and Ron Gordon published in 2013. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Bookbinding Program at the North Bennet Street School in Boston and was Chair of the New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, helping to formulate the Chapter during the 1970s and the 1980s. And in 2014, he received the Guild of Book Workers Lifetime Achievement Award.
Organized by Jenn Pellecchia
Interviewed by Erin Fletcher
