George Cowie
Bookseller, printer and publisher; successor to Vernor, Hood & Sharpe (q.v.), also of 31 Poultry; Publisher of satirical weekly "Asmodeus, or The Devil in London". - Per the British Museum (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG193706) He was active in the book trade from about 1801 to 1860, and is usually credited with the authorship of "Cowie's Bookbinder's Manual" and "Cowie's Printer's Pocket-book & Manual".
Cowie's bookbinder's manual
Cowie's Printer's pocket-book and manual containing the compositor's and pressman's scale of prices, agreed upon in 1810 and modified in 1816 ; the newsmen's scale ... ; all the schemes of impositions ... ; the Hebrew, Greek and Saxon alphabets ... ; To w
Cowi e's printers' pocket book and manual
Cowie's Bookbinder's Manual : Containing a Full Description of Leather and Vellum Binding, Directions for Gilding of Paper and Book-Edges, and Numerous Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Colouring, & Marbling
Cowie's job master printers' price book
Cowie's printer's pocket-book and manual
Cowie's Printer's pocket-book and manual, containing the compositors' and pressmen's scale of prices, agreed upon in 1810 and modified in 1816 ; the newsmen's scale, numerous valuable tables ; all the schemes of impositions from folio to hundred and twent
The bookbinder's manual