Gallery : Historical Printing Plates

Having a clear out of our brushmaking warehouse recently, we came across these fantastic printing plates. The box they were in simply said “Printer’s bookplates” so we guess they were used for printing a catalogue - possibly litho printed, but we aren't sure! A couple of the smaller ones were used for parts of this:     [gallery link="file" size="full" ids="1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856" orderby="rand"]