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Message:: [QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 408009, member: 8267"]OK. The complex lines are characteristic of steel engravings (not a mezzotint), with perhaps a bit of aquatint on the right side of the 2nd photo. That said, the 19th century was a time of great innovation in printmaking (among other things). The same image could be reproduced with transfer lithography and would appear identical, except for the way the ink lies on the paper. "The greatest single use of transfer lithography came in the second half of the 19th century....A print which has the linear characteristics of a conventional line engraving but the flat ink quality of a lithograph will almost certainly be intaglio transferred to stone." So, it could be an original steel engraving, or might be a transfer lithograph. The Printsellers' Association stamp may be your best evidence that it is an original engraving. I am afraid this is getting beyond my knowledge base, and ability to diagnose through photographs. If you would like to pursue it further, I can recommend an excellent reference by Bamber Gascoigne: How to Identify Prints: A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet. Thames & Hudson, 2004. ISBN 0-500-28480-6, (from which I took the above quotes).[/QUOTE]