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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 761535, member: 19065&quot;]Quite unfortunate if so, but not at all uncommon that book dealers and even some print dealers who specialize in selling reproduction prints of engravings taken from previously bound books would do this. Some dealers cut prints from books to sell separately but may still sell the books if not in bad shape. Others get the books with broken boards (covers) and cracked/missing spines, broken binding threads and just remove the plates for individual sale due to these other damages found throughout the book (often it&#039;s even insect damage or brittle, yellowed pages) making the whole book unsaleable. It&#039;s sort of like selling a car for its parts to make more money and scraping the old rusted chassis that can&#039;t be saved. Unfortunate indeed! But a lot of books fall apart or go beyond a lifetime with no attention to conservation and end up this way. As well, some buyers will not look in an old book to search for images and buy the entire tome to appreciate one image, instead are interested in sifting through a box of matted prints taken from books and buy them for decorative purposes. You see this often in rare/old/used book shops.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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