This page has an illustration from that strange interlude during which photographs weren't mass-reproducible, so the image had to be manually engraved on a wood

This page has an illustration from that strange interlude during which photographs weren't mass-reproducible, so the image had to be manually engraved on a wooden printing plate to be reproduced. "Our image above isn’t a photograph but a print made from an engraving, made from a daguerreotype – one of the first photographic processes. Engravings could easily be printed multiple times and used to illustrate books, whereas photographs could not. "