Terrific Old COPY Printing Block Victorian portraut No foxing or notable aging

No foxing or notable aging to the paper at all

The carving itself I think is terrific

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

and two other plates I am listing separately

all in good shape

Terrific Old COPY Printing Block Victorian portraut No foxing or notable agingI 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