Lot Essay
An almost identical hymnal bookplate by Kulp and made for Jacob Kolb in Hilltown Township, Bucks County, 1814, is illustrated Amsler, ed., Bucks County Fraktur (Doylestown, 1999), p. 162, fig. 110; an additional bookplate for David Hoch date 1809 is illustrated p. 107, fig. 77. For another related bookplate by Kulp made for Sarah Hoch, dated 1808, see also Hollander, et al., American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York, 2001), p. 233, fig. 204.