Dan Allen wrote:
> I also bought CW era prints
> such as a woodcut of Fort Negley until I realized the
> sellers were dismantling whole issues of Harper's Weekly
> and selling the individual pages to me, resulting in the
> destruction of the original document.
That's a very common practice among book and document
dealers, especially with atlases and books of prints -- the
individual plates can be sold for much more, in aggregate,
than the whole, intact volume.