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English work entitled the Looking-Glass for the Mind.
The engravings which adorned it were made on wood
by Bewick, the father of modern wood-engraving. Up
to this time Anderson's engravings had been made on
type metal, and he had no idea that wood was used for
the purpose. When he had completed about half the
illustrations he was told that Bewick's pictures were
engraved on boxwood. He immediately procured some
pieces of that wood from a rule-maker's shop, invented
proper tools, experimented, and, to his great joy, found
the material much more agreeable to work upon and
more easily managed than type metal. Two of these
wooden blocks are still in existence. In the first year
of his practice of medicine Dr. Anderson drew and en¬
graved on wood in an admirable manner, even when
compared with the art at the present day, a full-length
human skeleton, from Albinus's Anatomy, which he en¬
larged to the length of three feet. This, it is believed,
is the largest fine and carefully elaborated engraving on
wood ever attempted, and has never been excelled in
accuracy of drawing and characteristic execution. When
Dr. Anderson was twenty-three years old his family all
died of the yellow fever. He was attacked while in at¬
tendance upon the physician with whom he had studied
and who had been prostrated by it. Both recovered, and
Anderson made a voyage to the West Indies to visit
his paternal uncle, Alexander Anderson, who was then
the king's botanist at St, Vincent. On his return he
resolved to abandon the practice of medicine and devote
himself to engraving, for which he had conceived an
irrepressible passion. At that time John Roberts, an
eccentric Scotchman and friend of Anderson's deceased
father, who painted miniatures and etched and en¬
graved on copper, was a clever musician and mathe¬
matician and a competent draughtsman, became his
instructor, Anderson preferred wood-engraving, but
the demand for it being small he practised on copper,
and under Roberts's instruction gained great proficiency.
His skill was well attested by the frontispiece to Rob¬
ertson's History of Charles V. and a portrait of Francis
I. These he engraved in the year 1800 for an edition
published in New York by Hopkins, But Roberts's
habits were so irregular that Anderson did not remain
with him long, and finally his master's intemperance
compelled him to give up the advantages which he
might have derived from that artist's practical sugges¬
tions, Anderson established himself as an engraver
soon after leaving Roberts, and up to the year 1820 he
used both wood and metal, as occasion required. He
illustrated the earliest editions of Webster's Spelling
Book, long a leading elementary book in the schools of
the United States. In 1857 a new and more fully illus¬
trated edition of that work was published, the engrav¬
ings being executed by Anderson from drawings by
Morgan, who was about eight years his junior. During
his long and busy life Dr. Anderson engraved many
thousands of subjects. His last engraving on copper
was made about the year 1812, to illustrate a quarto
Bible. The subject was the ''Last Supper," from an
English design. From that time he engraved on wood
exclusively, and found continual employment until
called upon to lay aside every implement of labor for¬
ever. In the spring of 1859 he removed from where he
had lived for over thirty years, going to Jersey City,
where he dwelt with a married daughter. He was then
eighty-five years of age. At that time he issued a new
business card, drawn and engraved by himself, with the
appropriate motto: "Flexus non Fractus"—''Bent,
not Broken," He died on January 17, 1870, the birth¬
day of Franklin, whom he might have seen. Their two
lives extended over one hundred and sixty-four years.
Dr. Anderson's age at the time of his death being
ninety-five. He was extremely regular in his habits,
and would not sit up after 10 o'clock at night, he used
to declare, " to see an angel." His reminiscences of the
past were extremely vivid.   He was acquainted with
 

most of the literary and professional men of the early
part of this century, and had been intimate with Irving
from a boy. From him Irving learned to play the
flageolet. In person he was a little below the medium
height, rather thick set, and presented a countenance
always beaming with benevolent and kindly feeling.

Andrews, Ezra R., a printer of Rochester, N, Y.,
was born in the town of Gates, Monroe County, in the
State of New York, March 16, 1828. His father moved
into Rochester, then known as Rochesterville, in that
year. The son attended the public and private schools
there until he was fourteen years of age, when he en¬
tered the office of the Rochester Democrat as a feed-boy
on an old-fashioned double-ended Adams press. He
continued in that place
as apprentice and jour¬
neyman for eleven
years, when in 1854,
with three others, he
went into business for
himself. The office he
established was a small
one for general job
printing, with two
hand-presses. One af¬
ter another of the part¬
ners were bought out,
and since 1871 he has
been conducting a book
and job office and book-
bindery which is one of
the largest in the coun¬
try outside of the great
cities. For four years
he was a member of the
City Council, and the last year its chairman. He was
the candidate of the Republican party for Mayor in
1870, but was defeated by a small majority, being op¬
posed by the liquor interest. He was a delegate to the
first convention of the Typothetse at Chicago in 1887,
and has since that time annually been chosen to rep¬
resent his local organization in the deliberations of the
United Typotlieta3, He has also been a member of its
executive committee from the beginning,

Anfangsbuchstaben (Ger,),—Initial letters.

Anfangskolumne (Ger.).—The beginning page.

Anfangszeile (Ger.).—Initial line.

Anfeuchten (Ger.).—To wet, to moisten.

Anfiihren [einen Satz] (Ger,). — To mark with
quotations.

Anfiihrungszeichen (Ger.).—Marks of quotation.

Anglaise (Fr.).—A script of a certain style, so called
because the English are believed by the French to write
thus.

Anglo-French Machine.—A perfecting cylinder
press, used in England, based upon the plans of the
 

EZRA R. ANDREWS.
 

ANGLO-FRENCH MACHINE.
 

Napier press, but altered in France.    There are two
impression cylinders, the sheet being carried from one

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