Moxon's Mechanick exercises, volume 2 (of 2)

book in parts was an old expedient to increase sales. I first note it

in an edition of the Bible in Hebrew, published by Robert Stephens of Paris between the years 1539 and 1544.

Copper-plates were preferred for the illustrations because they could be engraved and printed more neatly and at a smaller expense. The arts of engraving on wood and of woodcut presswork were then in ...