Terrific Old COPY Printing Block Victorian portraut and two other plates I

and two other plates I am listing separately

extracted from a notebook that was already coming apart when I found it

and perched at top

No foxing or notable aging to the paper at all

with these fantastic thick curling grass braids secured with splint loops against a checkerboard splint background

Terrific Old COPY Printing Block Victorian portraut and two other plates II pass by hundreds if not thousands of old printing blocks for every one that I purchase, and this one appeals to me on all fronts. I think it's just a beautiful object to begin with, and the font on the capital letters, outlined in copper I believe, just right for the word. I also love it for the resonance the word "copy" carries here: copy referring to content, as in text, which the word "copy" itself is, and also as in copies, which the function of