American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples

by Charles Dexter Allen

A list of the book-plates signed by Hurd is appended.

A LIST OF BOOK-PLATES SIGNED BY NATHANIEL HURD.
Theodore Atkinson	Chippendale.
Thomas Brown
John Chandler, Jr.	Chippendale.
Rufus Chandler
Francis Dana	Chippendale.
Danforth	Chippendale.
Lewis De Blois	Jacobean.
Thomas Dering	Chippendale.
Philip Dumeresque	Chippendale.
Isaac Foster	Jacobean.
Benjamin Greene	Jacobean.
Thomas Greene, Jr.	Jacobean.
William Greenleaf
Robert Hale, Esq., of Beverly	Chippendale.
Harvard College	Seal.
Harvard College	Pictorial.
William Hooper	Chippendale.
Jonathan Jackson	Ribbon and Wreath.
Robert Jenkins	Jacobean.
Peter R. Livingston	Jacobean.
John Lowell	Chippendale.
Henry Marchant	Chippendale.
John Marston	Chippendale.
Samuel Osborne	Chippendale.
Henry Pace
Joshua Spooner	Jacobean.
Nathaniel Tracy	Chippendale.
Andrew Tyler	Jacobean.
Wentworth	Chippendale.
John C. Williams	Ribbon and Wreath.

A LIST OF PLATES ATTRIBUTED TO HURD, ALTHOUGH NOT SIGNED.
Thomas Child	Chippendale.
Henry Courtenay	Chippendale.
Edwd. Augs. Holyoke	Chippendale.
By the name of Hurd	Plain Armorial.
Loring	Chippendale.
Lucretia E. Newton	Ribbon and Wreath.
	(Same copper as the John C. Williams.)
Andrew Oliver	Chippendale.
Samuel Page	Label: Chippendale frame.
Phillips Academy	Chippendale.
Ezekiel Price	Chippendale.
John Simpson	Chippendale.
John Vassall	Chippendale.
David Wilson	Chippendale.	}One copper.
James Wilson	Chippendale.

Of James Akin, who signs the Coffin and Browne plates, nothing is learned. The Hector Coffin book-plate is also signed by Francis Kearney, which would seem to indicate that Akin was associated with him. The Browne is a Philadelphia plate, and Akin may have been employed by the firm of Tanner, Vallance, Kearney and Company, which was in successful operation in Philadelphia for some years.

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