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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;McAdder, post: 428684, member: 7942&quot;]Finding this particular engraving in a book will be difficult, we dont know the publisher. There were a lot of those illustrated books from the 1840 until 1890.</p><p>It could be called the Bible, pictorial bible, biblical stories, Life of the savior, the gospels....</p><p>In the 19th century there were many books like that printed in high numbers, usually with many illustrations&nbsp; usually 100 or more. The record is the 1846 illuminated bible with over 1600 Illustrations and over 1000 individual Initials <a href="http://www.antiquebible.com/f26.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.antiquebible.com/f26.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.antiquebible.com/f26.html</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/illuminatedbible00adam/page/n13" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/illuminatedbible00adam/page/n13" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/illuminatedbible00adam/page/n13</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you mean a woodblock, they come up sometimes eg <a href="https://www.proantic.com/display.php?mode=obj&amp;id=170472" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.proantic.com/display.php?mode=obj&amp;id=170472" rel="nofollow">https://www.proantic.com/display.php?mode=obj&amp;id=170472</a></p><p>But finding good dry wood, big enough for a woodcut engraving without knots or other damage was not so easy, so they sometimes used the other side or planed down the image after ts quality suffered from many prints and reused the block.</p><p>And the woodblocks were not really considered art, more printers tools. Many of the woodcuts of the old masters like Dürer were kept in the collections of the aristocracy and are in museums today, but i guess most of the younger ones were simply used as firewood once they couldnt be used any more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I would consider it more a novelty than a collectible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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