Excerpt from American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel, Vol. 2 The following lists of the work of the earlier American engravers upon copper and steel include only the plates of the men who were actually engraving in this country before 1825; though all of the work found of any man coming within this classification is covered in the lists. This date of 1825 was somewhat arbitrarily selected as about marking the beginning of what may be termed the commercial period of engraving in the United States; or, a time when engraving companies and the employers of engravers began to sign the plates issued, and the identity of the actual engraver was lost for all purposes of record. The output of some of these engraving companies became exceedingly varied in character and great in volume about the middle of the last century; and the simple labor involved in classifying and describing their plates, and the space occupied in printing these descriptions, would be out of proportion to the value of the record thus secured, and to the original purpose of the writer in making the compilation here presented. In this connection it is only necessary to say that in a comparatively few years a single New York engraving company produced over 25,000 separate plates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.