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<p>[QUOTE="Mark London, post: 358163, member: 346"]Wood blocks do not lend themselves to large scale mechanical printing. I agree the prints should be numbered. There have been art publishers who try to inflate revenues by pulling two editions off the same matrix, one on paper "a" numbered in Roman numerals, and another on paper "b" numbered in Arabic... However, in this scenario, all prints would be numbered.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is hard to know what the OP has but it could simply be a trial proof or test print[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mark London, post: 358163, member: 346"]Wood blocks do not lend themselves to large scale mechanical printing. I agree the prints should be numbered. There have been art publishers who try to inflate revenues by pulling two editions off the same matrix, one on paper "a" numbered in Roman numerals, and another on paper "b" numbered in Arabic... However, in this scenario, all prints would be numbered. It is hard to know what the OP has but it could simply be a trial proof or test print[/QUOTE]
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