Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . nd in red skiver (split sheep-skin), without the slightest attempt at or-namentation ; but aside from the bindingthe book is interesting for its allegoricalfrontispiece, said to represent Hugh, EarlPercy, being rewarded by Britannia, withMajor Donkin seated at a table (Donkinwas a major in the British army servingin America in 1777), engraved by , an artist whom Dunlap assertsoccupied a unique position in the arts ofhis time. He was, writes the author ofthe History of the Rise and Progress ofthe Arts of Design in the United States,origi
Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . nd in red skiver (split sheep-skin), without the slightest attempt at or-namentation ; but aside from the bindingthe book is interesting for its allegoricalfrontispiece, said to represent Hugh, EarlPercy, being rewarded by Britannia, withMajor Donkin seated at a table (Donkinwas a major in the British army servingin America in 1777), engraved by , an artist whom Dunlap assertsoccupied a unique position in the arts ofhis time. He was, writes the author ofthe History of the Rise and Progress ofthe Arts of Design in the United States,originally a gun engraver, and employedin the Tower of London. He came toPhiladelphia in 1773 and undertook allkinds of engraving. He probably stoodhigh in public opinion; he was the best,for he stood alone. We do not clearlycomprehend this singular assertion, forcertainly there were others, such as Doo-little, Hill, Turner and Trenchard,among Smithers contemporaries whoseengravings appear to us to equal, if notto excel, his work. (To be concluded.). EARLY AMERICAN BOOKBINDING AND KINDRED SUBJECTS. By William Loring Andrews. {Concluded.) If this book of Major Donkin wasbound by the- printer of it, as may possi-bly be the case, we have here an exampleof Hugh Gaines plain morocco binding,and perchance we may also attribute tohim the binding, in olive morocco gilt,on the Book of Common Prayer, HughGaine, Printer, at the Sign of the Biblein Hanover Square, New York, 1793, inthe possession of Mr. Beverly edition, which was published by di-rection of the General Convention of theEpiscopal Church, the same printer, fol-lowed, two years later, by one in largefolio, for use at the lectern of the is printed in bold, clear type, and hand-somely bound in mottled and sprinkledcalf. It is probably as fine a piece oftypography as ever issued from the pressof the turn-coat printer, who was de-servedly made to say in a poetical versionof his petition at the close of the Revolu-ti
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