The Return of 'The Book of Plates?'

Blemished copies of “The Book of Plates” that we sold out of years ago.

I swore on a stack of 18th-century manuscripts that we wouldn’t reprint “The Book of Plates,” which was an oversized volume containing all the engravings from “l’art du Menuisier” by A-J Roubo.

But we get constant requests for the book. And the prices on the secondary market are silly…