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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dadams, post: 3194080, member: 82194&quot;]Great prints Justin!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Many (most) antique prints like this have been extracted from published books. I find myself with boxes of abused and more than well used books containing plates which I suppose I eventually will disbind to save the plates.</p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/boards/breaker001.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Most recently came across the Plate Volume to an 1841 edition of Wilkinson&#039;s <i>Manners and Customs of The Ancient Egyptians</i> which contains 88 plates:</p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/boards/breaker002.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/boards/breaker003.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/boards/breaker004.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/boards/breaker005.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A BOOK BREAKER is a generally derogatory term used in the booktrade too describe such sellers of plates and maps from books, but I always take exception to the term since many books are so far gone that it becomes a salvage operation to save those parts of a book which other people can purchase and enjoy singly.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been notorious instances of book breaking in the Map &amp; Print trade where dealers will purchase a wholly acceptable volume and then rip it up to sell the single plates.&nbsp; The Double-Elephant Folio edition of Audubon&#039;s <i>The Birds of America</i>, for example, has become an extremely expensive book nowadays with complete copies commanding 10 million and any buyer would be ostracized for breaking a complete copy, but twenty-thirty years ago it was kinda common to buy such book and break it since the individual parts often will surpass the value of the whole.&nbsp; Here are some <a href="https://aradergalleries.com/collections/birds-of-america" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://aradergalleries.com/collections/birds-of-america" rel="nofollow">single Audubon plates for example</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some rambling here but just to say if you ever frequent sales where you run across old books keep a keen eye out for those rough beat up volumes that have cool contents.</p><p><br /></p><p>-d[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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