Harper's woodcut question

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

it does indeed sound like a HARPER'S reprint, since there is the "Harper's Weekly" at the top. But mine exactly matches the one Purdy reprinted in VCBC, including the Base-Ball, no names on the top, and pages 535 (back_--with entirely different things on it)--and page 536 (front), no little box with further comments.

The allusion to the men's later careers (though vague) would indicate that it wasn't too much later. I mean, no 25 years. Is the entire page toned evenly?--all my Harper's are. They are also quite thin, and the test of a real one is supposed to be that the print from the back shows through a little on the front.

Not that I've made an exhaustive study of Harper's Woodcuts, but I don't think I've ever HEARD of their doing a reprint before. If yours is as large as mine, there's no way you could scan it-=-and the subtle differenes--the toning, the see-through print-=-wouldn't show up anyway.