I think you're right. Looks like they all have copperplate engravings on them - perhaps, as copperplate printing was a completely different...
I had a van Veen emblem book a few years back, with classical rather than religious quotes, mostly from Horace: Q. Horati Flacci Emblemata....
A quote from Blades' "Enemies of Books", 1888, pp. 119-120: "The following is copied from a trade catalogue, dated April, 1880, and affords a...
A lovely group. I suggest a possible alternative origin: title page collecting was an execrable hobby in the Victorian era and earlier, much to...
The Booker T. Washington photo is a half-tone plate, printed by the relief process from a photomechanically-produced zinc (probably) plate, to be...
Serigraphs are popularly called 'silk screen prints'. They feature areas of flat color with detectable, very even edges, and sometimes the texture...
I regret to say, but this, if genuine (and it probably is), has been so badly re-colored as to be worth very little, which may be why Christie's...
As a side note, I don't doubt Mr Cuff made this handsome mallet, but it was long the practice of tradesmen to stamp their names or at least...
An etching; aquatint to be specific.
This looks like hot stamping, in which metal dies are used to press gold or other colors of foil into the surface to be printed, often book...
It's possible the 1062 on the tag is a date code for October 1962 - you'd have to find some other tag examples to test the theory.
Just a bamboo whittler, showing off. I have a small but pleasing collection of whittled balls-in-cages and chains - I respect the skill & patience...
I am curious as to how you can establish so precise a date for this handsome leaf?
These are yei figures, Navajo iconography, but the rug is Mexican - the warp appears to be white cotton - the Navajo use wool, and never leave a...
Dirt does not = age. I find the motion lines in the buggy wheels interesting - I've never seen that in an old painting; to me it speaks of...
And the name is probably Danilo, a common Italo-Iberian name certainly seen frequently in South America.
I use a little Fredelka Formula (aka Triple Crown) on mine that seem to need it, but the needs of dealers & collectors and the needs of librarians...
Tibetan.
Hard NO to petroleum jelly, unless you hate your heirs. https://www.bookthink.com/0071/71alt.htm
Lovely....I do sometimes see old printed paper recycled in more modern bindings, too, and old maps were remade into dustjackets in Britain during...
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