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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 379074, member: 56&quot;]Looking at Abebooks, I&#039;m guessing this was originally published as a subscription series and later collected and re-published as these 2 volumes.&nbsp; Most date it 1912/13.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours look to be never used and you have both volumes, but brittleness and foxing might cancel that out. I doubt there&#039;s much demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Must have been very impressive when new.&nbsp; No doubt the original owner thought he was making a sound investment (and he might have been had the paper been better quality).</p><p><br /></p><p>The plates were tipped-in - printed separately and glued into place - and the printing would be good quality for the time, but nothing special now.&nbsp; It was how color illustrations were usually handled back then.&nbsp; I have a coffee table book on Impressionists printed in the late 1960s using the same technique (and thought that was a sound investment).</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone might like that the prints look antiquey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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