READING 1 OF 23 focus words
A print and its frame
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The seller called the sheet a xylograph and showed the block used to print it. Its gilded frame had lost much of its gold along the lower edge.
An archaic spelling in the caption made the owner suspect the print was old. The freshly cut block suggested a different story.
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