ladelphia, and even Charleston to
illustrate their books. Like other engravers, he began by cutting in
type-metal, or engraving upon copper. In seventeen hundred and
ninety-four, for Durell of New York, he undertook to make illustrations,
probably for "The Looking Glass for the Mind." Beginning by copying
Bewick's pictures upon type-metal, when "about one-third done, Dr.
Anderson felt satisfied he could do better on wood."[166-A] In his diary
we find noted an instance of his perseverance in the midst of
discouragement: "Sept. 24. This morning I was quite discouraged on
seeing a crack in the wood. Employed as usual at the Doctor's, came home
to dinner, glued the wood and began again with fresh hopes of producing
a good wood engraving." September 26 found him "pretty well satisfied
with the impression and so was Durell." In eighteen hundred he engraved
all the pictures on wood for a new edition of the same book, and from
this time he seems to have discontinued the use of type-metal, which he
had employed in his earlier work as illustrator of the "Pilgrim's
Progress" issued by Hugh Gaine, and of "Tom Thumb's Folio" printed by
Brewer. After eighteen hundred and twelve Anderson almost gave up
engraving on copper also, and devoted himself to satisfying the great
demand for his work on wood. For Durell of New York, an extensive
reprinter of English books, from toy-books to a folio edition of
Josephus, he reproduced the English engravings, never making, according
to Mr. Lossing, more than a frontispiece for the larger volumes.

Although Samuel Wood and Sons of New York also gave Dr. Anderson many
orders for cuts for their various juvenile publications, he still found
time to engrave for publishers of other cities. We find his
illustrations in the toy-books printed in Boston and Philadelphia; and
for Sidney Babcock, a New Haven publisher of juvenile literature, he
supplied many of the numerous woodcuts required. The best of Anderson's
work as an engraver coincided with the years of Babcock's very extensive
business of issuing children's books, between 1805 and 1840. His cuts
adorned the juvenile duodecimos that this printer's widely extended
trade demanded; and even as far south as Charleston, South Carolina,
Babcock, like Isaiah Thomas, found it profitable to open a branch shop.

Anderson's illustrations are the main features of most of Babcock's
little blue, pink, and yellow paper-covered books; especially of those
printed in