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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 429522, member: 5833&quot;]<a href="https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search?query=bible%20AND%20data.imprint.geo_info.imprint_country_code.orig%3A%22FR%22&amp;size=10&amp;mode=default&amp;from=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search?query=bible%20AND%20data.imprint.geo_info.imprint_country_code.orig%3A%22FR%22&amp;size=10&amp;mode=default&amp;from=0" rel="nofollow">These are the results of a search of the British Library&#039;s catalogue of incunabula</a> for &#039;Bible&#039; &amp; printed in France.&nbsp; You have to expand the record to know whether or not a volume is illustrated.&nbsp; Ones I found that are, all had the same note: woodcuts.&nbsp; The block under consideration here is clearly an engraving, so, once again, support for the position that the block is not 15th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>OP says it was found carefully packed for storage, so someone valued it enough to take good care of it.&nbsp; Can we know whether this was because owner believed item to be of great age and value, or simply because s/he had the sense to know it would easily be marred by knocking around if just thrown in a box?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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