Richard Harrison Plain armorial. Elias Hicks Ribbon and Wreath. George Ludlow Ribbon and Wreath. W. T. McCoun Plain armorial. Horatio Shepheard Moat Ribbon and Wreath. New York College of Pharmacy Ornamented label. James Adam Smith Plain armorial. Thomas N. Stanforth Ribbon and Wreath. Teachers’ Union, St. George’s Church Engraved label. John W. Watkins, A.M. Ribbon and Wreath. Charles Wilkes Plain armorial. Azarias Williams Ribbon and Wreath. * * * * * J. SMITHERS, an Englishman, originally a gun-engraver employed in the Tower of London, came to Philadelphia in the year 1773. [Illustration: H. E. Deats.] He had a good name as a man and as an engraver, and made the blocks for the Continental money. A large plan of the city of Philadelphia on three plates, which was his work, was subsequently purchased, when copper was scarce, for thirty dollars, and cut up into smaller pieces. Among his pupils was Trenchard, of whose work we have a few examples. The following plates are signed by Smithers:-- John Day Plain armorial. Fenwick Chippendale. Henry Hale Graham Plain armorial. John Magill Chippendale. Henry McMurtrie Pictorial. He sometimes signed with the final _s_, and sometimes without it. His book-plates are not especially brilliant in any way, but are good, and in the pure style. His finest attempt is the landscape plate for _Dr. McMurtrie_ of Philadelphia. * * * * * T. SPARROW was an obscure engraver on wood, who worked at his trade in Annapolis from 1765 to about 1780, and who did considerable work for “Ann Catherine Green & Son, Printers,” of that town, on title-pages, tail-pieces, etc. He engraved on copper the title-page for the “Deputy Commissary’s Guide of Maryland,” published by the above firm in 1774, and which is a creditable piece of work. All the book-plates known at present are on wood, and they are but two in number: the _Richard Sprigg_ and the _Gabriel Duvall_, both of whom were men of prominence in the colonial times, in Maryland. * * * * * WILLIAM D. TERRY, who was mentioned as the founder, with Pelton, of the Bank-Note Company, in Boston, engraved a plate for the _Redwood Library_, of Newport. This is a large representation of the library, and is a fine piece of work. * * * * * JAMES THACKARA was a partner of John Vallance, in the engraving business, and they were together for a good many years. Thackara was inferior to his partner as an engraver, according to Dunlap, and was for a long time the keeper of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.