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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4333792, member: 56&quot;]Any publication data?&nbsp; Looks like the kind of edition sold by subscription.&nbsp; Do any of the volumes end mid-sentence? (They did that sometimes to encourage purchase of the next volume.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If they are actual steel plate engravings, I&#039;d strip the books for the prints.</p><p><br /></p><p>If they are steel plate engravings there will be no text on the back and the front may be protected with tissue.&nbsp; The paper will be considerably heavier than the pages with text.</p><p><br /></p><p>Illustrations embedded in text are probably wood engravings.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know lots of people will object to this, but these were the coffee table books of their day - meant to be eye candy with text as an excuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>The plates for these pictures traveled around.&nbsp; I have a copy of that Childhood print and am aware (with this) of five publications in which it appeared over a thirty year period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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