Until that time, prints existed only on engraved plates.

Published in 25 Volumes this work contains 122 fine engraved plates.

By 1586 he began printing music books, using engraved plates.

The house survives, with limited losses, much as it appears in the engraved plates of the book.

Four 32-subject engraved plates are mounted on the press then covered with ink.

A second edition was published in 1816, consisting of 348 engraved plates and 20 folding maps.

Without the engraved plate on the door he lived as if illegally or under an assumed name.

His engraved plates were put up to auction with the pictures.

It was not until the Restoration that the engraved plates could be utilized.

His engraved plates, nearly 1,500 in number, are almost entirely original and include a portrait of himself.