Armorial. Jacobean. Motto, _Follow reason_. Signed, _N. Hurd, Scp._ Of Massachusetts. A very fine plate. 814. SPOONER. _Wm. Spooner._ Pictorial. A play on the name. Two doves are billing and cooing, and two hearts are overlapped above them. Of Newport. Circa 1825. 815. SPOTSWOOD. (Anonymous.) Armorial. Early Chippendale. Motto, _Patior ut potiar_. Of Virginia. 816. SPRIGG. _Richard Sprigg junr._ Name-label within an ornamental border of foliated scrolls, in the top of which a group of thirteen stars is fixed. Signed, _T. Sparrow_. Above his name are the letters _F. G._, whose meaning is lost. A woodcut. 817. SPRY. _William Spry._ Armorial. Chippendale. No motto. Signed, _W. Smith’s_. Of New York. The design of this plate is similar to some by Dawkins, but the execution is superior. Probably Dawkins copied from Smith, who was without doubt an English engraver. 818. STANFORD. _Thos. N. Stanford._ Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Verum dicit_. Signed, _Rollinson_. 819. STEARNS. _Stearns._ Plain armorial. Motto, _Firm_. Of Massachusetts. 820. STEARNS. _Benjamin Stearns._ Name-label. Above the name a cabalistic arrangement of the letters W. V. and M. with four hands in pairs pointing at them. Motto, _Nihil me tangere_, altered to _Noli me tangere_. Dated 1833. 821. STEPHENS. _William Stephens._ Armorial. Jacobean. Mantling. Motto, _In corrupta fides nudaque veritas_. This resembles the plate of William Cowper, Clerk of Parliament. Not signed, but possibly by Maverick, although not in his usual style. 822. STEVENS. _Henry Stevens, Barnet. Vt. (Walton’s Press, Montpelier. Vt.)._ The arms of the State with its motto, _Freedom and Unity_. Under this, in a frame, is the following poem:-- _In Paradise, the tree,_ _Of knowledge was the pride:_ _By God’s supreme decree,_ _The man who eat--then died._ _But Heaven in mercy since_ _Does him who tastes forgive:_ _To know, is no offence:_ _Now, he who eats--shall live._ The famous bibliographer. 823. STEVENS. _The Property of Henry Stevens, Barnet, 180-._ A simple name-label, printed, with ornamental type. 824. STEWART. _Anthony Stewart Annapolis Maryland._ Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Nobilis ira_. A very handsome design, the name-bracket being large and handsomely ornamented; rows of roses down the sides, and the graceful foliation, make a very handsome plate. 825. STEWART. _James Stewart. New York._ Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Nil Desperandum._ 826. STEWART. _Hon. John Stewart Esqr. Quebec._ Plain armorial. Mantling. Motto, _Nobilis ira_. Signed, _S. Jones Sc Quebec_. 827. STILLE. _Alfred Stille. M.D._ Plain armorial. Motto, _Innocenter, patienter, constanter_. A large plate. Of Philadelphia. 828. STITH. _William Stith._ Armorial. Jacobean. Motto, _Rather virtue than learning_, in Greek. The historian of Virginia. Date of plate, circa 1745. Illustrated in “Curio,” page 15. 829. STOCKBRIDGE. _Charles Stockbridge._