American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . THE MURDER OF LA SALLE IN TEXAS. DRAWN BY W. L. SHEPPARD. AMERICAN ART 409. From Emblems of Mortality/ Durell, writes Lossing, became an extensive reprinter of Eng-lish works, small and great, from toy-books to a folio editionof yosepJms and more than a hundred volumes of EnglishClassics. He employed Anderson to reproduce the pictures inthese works, (seldom, I imagine, more than a single frontis-piece, — the custom then,) and they were done with greatskill considering his opportunities. For Hugh Gaine, the emi-nent journa
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . THE MURDER OF LA SALLE IN TEXAS. DRAWN BY W. L. SHEPPARD. AMERICAN ART 409. From Emblems of Mortality/ Durell, writes Lossing, became an extensive reprinter of Eng-lish works, small and great, from toy-books to a folio editionof yosepJms and more than a hundred volumes of EnglishClassics. He employed Anderson to reproduce the pictures inthese works, (seldom, I imagine, more than a single frontis-piece, — the custom then,) and they were done with greatskill considering his opportunities. For Hugh Gaine, the emi-nent journalist during the Revolution, he engraved on type-metal illustrations of the Pilgrims Progress; for Brewer, cutsfor Tom Thumbs Folio; for Harrison, pictures for a book ofFables; for Babcock, of Hartford, fifteen cuts for fifty shillings;for Reid, Campbell, and Wood, portraits and cuts for theirseveral editions of Dilworths Spelling Book ; for Philip Freneau,the poet, cuts for a Primer; and in 1795 began engraving thecuts for an edition of Websters Spelling Book for Bunce & Co.(afterwards published by Cooledge). So Lossing, from whose word
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