is not in either of the characteristic modes of Hurd. It is an ambitious plate, and was meant to be very fine, evidently. It is full of flourishes, and the little spiral flourish at the lower right-hand side is wholly out of place; the robin picking rose leaves at the side is an innovation. The scrolls under the name are somewhat in the manner of Hurd. The heraldic drawing is poor, and the bunch of arrows between the shield and the crest must be in allusion to the occupation of the owner, who was a missionary to the Indians. [Illustration: John Chambers Esq^{r}.] There is said to be a plate by Furnass owned in Boston, by the name of _Foster_, but no definite knowledge of it has been obtained. * * * * * E. GALLAUDET, who signed the plate for the _New York Society Library_ and the plate of _John Chambers_, was one Elisha Gallaudet, who practised his art in New York City towards the end of the last century. EDWARD GALLAUDET, a relative of the above, was superior to him as an engraver, and the _Gallaudet_ plate mentioned in the List is by him. He was of the present century. * * * * * ABRAHAM GODWIN was born in New Jersey in 1763. He was intended for the profession of the law, and was placed in the office of his brother, at Fishkill, in New York state. Both men joined the army, however; and when Abraham returned to his home, it was to take up the art of engraving, towards which he had had an inclination from boyhood, when he made his first attempts on the silver plate of his friends, with a graver made by a blacksmith. The only example of his book-plate work is a plate fully described under the heading, “Unidentified,” in the List. Most unfortunately, the only example known has the family name torn out. The first name is _John_. The plate is rather rudely engraved, but is quite ambitious, showing the interior of a large room, which might be either a school-room or a library. * * * * * S. HARRIS, who engraved the pictorial plates of _Henry Andrews_ and the anonymous _Williams_, was a New England engraver, who was in Boston about 1798. CHARLES P. HARRISON, who signed the plain armorial book-plates of _William Betts_ and _David Paul Brown_, was a son of William Harrison, an English engraver, who came to New York in 1794, and was for a time an instructor of Peter Maverick the second. * * * * * SAMUEL HILL was a copper-plate engraver in Boston, about 1790, and his work consisted mostly of portraits and book work. The following are examples of his work:-- Willm. P. & L. Blake’s Circulating Library at the Boston Book Store Ornamented label. Charles Pierpont Ribbon and Wreath. William Winthrop Ribbon and Wreath. Also the plate of _Saml. Hill_, which is of a literary flavor, is probably the engraver’s own plate. * * * * *