There is a plate of the _Apprentices’ Library Company of Philadelphia_ which strongly resembles the wood-cut work of Anderson, but as it is not signed it is not safely attributed to him. In the plate of _A. Griggs_ of Philadelphia, an even more marked resemblance to his little designs on wood is seen, but this, too, is not signed. * * * * * ANNIN AND SMITH. This firm consisted of _W. B. Annin_ and _George C. Smith_, and they were established in Boston from 1820 to 1837. Annin died in 1839, in Boston, and Smith, who lived to quite an advanced age, died in 1878. They engraved a number of plates for the “Token,” and for other annuals so popular sixty years ago. The plates of _Richard Taylor Auchmuty_, _A. L. Peirson_, _William H. Prescott_, _John Lowell, Jr._, and an armorial plate for the _Boylston Medical Library_ are signed by them, and will be found described in the List. * * * * * ABEL BOWEN, whose name appears on one of the plates of _Harvard College_, was the first wood-engraver in Boston. He was born in New York state in 1790, and he took up engraving before he was of age. In 1812 he was a printer in Boston, probably attracted thither by his uncle, who was the proprietor of the Columbian [Illustration: WILLIAM ASHMEAD COURTENAY] Museum. Nathaniel Dearborn claims to be the first engraver on wood in Boston, but the honor is usually accorded to Bowen. He issued, in 1816, the “Naval Monument,” and in 1817 was associated with Dearborn in engraving for Shaw’s “History of Boston.” In 1834 Bowen, with others, founded “The Boston Bewick Company,” which was an association of engravers. In the following year they issued a map of Boston, and undertook the publishing of the “American Magazine.” They were burned out in this same year. Bowen died in 1850. * * * * * JOHN BOYD, who engraved the plate of _Samuel Chase_, which is taken to be the plate of the signer of the Declaration, was a Philadelphia engraver. This is the only specimen of his work on book-plates which we have, and it is a very pretty Chippendale design, delicately engraved. In Dunlap, a J. Boyd is simply mentioned, who was engraving in Philadelphia in 1812. This, if the engraver of the Chase plate, would make him rather young at the time of doing it, and it is very good work, and not the experiment of a novice. Whether this is the same engraver, I do not know. * * * * *