The original tenants were graphic art professionals, including a commercial engraver, a photographer, and art studios.
Some penmen also gave scope to his skill as an engraver of specimens of calligraphy.
There a staff of engravers would use the sketches to create engravings on blocks of boxwood.
Very few master engravers exist today who rely solely on feel and muscle memory to sharpen tools.
He was a pharmacist, apothecary, printer, engraver/etcher, bookseller, stationer, publisher, bookbinder, librarian/owner of a circulating library, and stereotyper/stereotype founder.
A man of high standards, as were his successors; he was a superb engraver, engraving becoming the foundation of the firm; lithography would follow later.
The chief engraver adapted his earlier work for the obverse.
It seems that the union which represents processing engravers and printers have instructed their members to refuse to process work other than from studios employing union members.
