Look at the scale of this book! It would have been printed one page at a time (o…

Look at the scale of this book! It would have been printed one page at a time (only a few pages printed a year) and sold to wealthy collectors. Each lithograph was so painstaking, it would have been impossible to make the whole book in one sitting. Collectors would wait for years for all the prints, then bind the books themselves…



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