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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 7394743, member: 111037&quot;]I think you are spot on. All my other antique books which are primarily 18th century have copper plates. The tell-tale sign is the visible border around the images that indicate the intaglio technique. Here is an pic of a page from another book in my collection that dates from around 1700. I added red arrows that point to the border I am talking about:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286622[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In my new book the images look like they are part of the text and have the generic characteristics of a woodcut. But for a more detailed description of the different techniques, here is an interesting link (how did we ever survived before the internet)?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://collation.folger.edu/2012/02/woodcut-engraving-or-what/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collation.folger.edu/2012/02/woodcut-engraving-or-what/" rel="nofollow">https://collation.folger.edu/2012/02/woodcut-engraving-or-what/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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