An engraved image composed of multiple plates (and other stuff)

Pursuant to the technique of combining multiple plates into a single image, I have this print of The Expulsion, from Atlas historique et geographique (1714) by Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783).


From the back you can see multiple plate marks, and from the description I wrote at the time:
There appear to be a multitude of plate marks (to my eyes): the largest surrounds the outside of the large decorative border, another encompasses the string border immediately around the text and center illustration, a third borders the illustration itself (excluding title). It may also be that that each panel of text is a separate plate, and the title as well.



If correct, this image is composed of at least 6 different plates that somehow had to be marshaled together.

It's also amazing to me that the columns of text are not typeset, but hand engraved, each column being its own individual plate. I have encountered this on other prints as well. There were specialists to do this type of work, and specialists to do borders, or titles, or armorial designs. and who knows what else. Their names very seldom appear on the finished print. If you look at prints that have fancy borders, or an armorial, there's a good chance you will find secondary plate marks.



What drew me to this print was the head of Eve, which just struck me as being incredibly 18th century, It made me wonder who, in Eden, was the beautician.

 

Super interesting MOS. Thanks.

Perhaps altering your definition of beauty, it seems like that one guy could be your answer.