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Old ink on fresh paper

Practice xylograph, gilded, archaic and legible, interleave, detached in two short readings.

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Only the last digit of the date was legible under the glass. To compare successive proofs, the printer would interleave them with transparent sheets marked in red.

One detached corner still lay inside the frame. Fitting it back into place completed the date.

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