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Show EARLY AMERICAN BOOKPLATES. Ono or tho most Interesting bnnches of the ntu ly or old book plates opens Urore us In Iho work or the cirly American en-gravels en-gravels several or whom were self-taught In the art of engraving on copper loremost among these waa Nathaniel Hum!, horn In Iloston Iu 1730 I loin thirty to fifty places by Ilurd aro known, most ot them belnc ror New Ilng'anlcrs llurd was a viry filr ensraver, but illl not ills plus a great nl lilt j as a designer A moro notable man In the history of tho loun'rs. I'aul l.cvro also uikravcd book I laics He too was u Iloston lid born I ve years Ijur than Ilurd llrought up In tho trade of Iho goldsmith ho had n) ti strueior Ir engraving m ioner Not pier hair a dozen plates by his ban! uro Inown Joseph ( nllrndrr iiin.tlur Iios Ionian by birth, made snmtthlng over a score or book plates (listing ilshed rrom tho work or llurd and Itevi-io by having other limn armorial lemon In Connecticut worked Atnus Doollitle. whoso plates have- a le Ided lltcrars flavor fla-vor Many of his plates were for tlhnules and co.lige societies Alexander Anderson Ander-son tin rirtet An rlenn w ol tngriver somellmes called the American Uewlck was born In New -ork At tho age of ;.' lie nlcd with the blade or a pockit I nlfe, to i ngrave on copper penults iollu.1 thin in Ihl. vvuy he mie'le hi. llVit plicli a lieud of I'aul Jones the llrsl Irnprualon tlng mado with red paint In a nido IOTi'..f..Al,.,lwl,',ni.?,V contrivance In 1786 his tlrsl wood block was cut Only a few book platies bs Vnderuon nru known 1 lie Appriintlcn s llbrarv of N w York and toe librais nf lolunibli uulversltj have! pi ctes bs lilm Ihese were enwrove-d on copucr and are signed Ho apparently iniidi verv revv took plateji on wood John I'lnturel the fnunder ot tho New ork lllstorhul society had such a plate, and It Uais Andersons uamo century Maca. sine |