American book-plates, a guide to their study with examples ... With a bibliography by Eben Hewins ... Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and recent (1905)
Allen, Charles Dexter, 1865-1926, Norwood Press. (1905) bkp CU-BANC, Hewins, Eben Newell · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 159
is simply anengraved label for the Library Company of Balti-more. Ornamented with flourishes, and somefancy work, it is yet of no merit as a book-plateor an example of art. Alexander Anderson, who was the firstAmerican wood-engraver, was born in the city ofNew York, April 21, 1775, and lived to… … mm ii8 Early Americaii Engravers. 119 to engrave on copper pennies rolled thin. In thisway he made his first plate, which was a head ofPaul Jones ; and his first impression from it wasmade in red oil paint by a rude kind of a pressof his own contrivance. With tools made by ablacksmith, he went on…
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