centre is taken from the seal. I used for separation of the two plants an ornamental border of an early Edinburgh printer, I believe, for I got it in the binding of an old Edinburgh book. And the motto belongs to the section of the Carruthers tribe to which we belong.
“The drawing was made by W. G. Smith, F.Z.S., a good botanist and an excellent draughtsman.”
CHAPTER VIII
CHIPPENDALE AND CRESTPLATES
William Sharp the Engraver—The Rev. John Watson—Edward Trotter—Patrick Colquhoun.
THE few following bookplates are all in the manner known as Chippendale:—
The Chippendale bookplate here given, with “Wm. Sharp” engraved at the foot of it, was one, we may suppose, engraved by William Sharp, the engraver, for himself. He was the son of a gunmaker, in days when gun-barrels and other parts of guns were often finely engraved.
William Sharp was born in 1749, died at Chiswick on July 25th, 1824.
Seeing that he became an engraver of very great skill and originality, the main points of his life are well worth recording. Born in Haydon Yard in the Minories, his father apprenticed him to Barak Longmate, an engraver and genealogist. Out of his indentures, he