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Paper maps don't have 'states'. Only a plate can change state, when
interfered with by an engraver. Any map is merely an example of those
maps printed from that plate in a particular state. An act of printing,
applying a sheet of paper to an inked plate, is an impression. We all
use 'copy' of a map (as in 'a copy of a book') too loosely when we
really mean an example of those maps printed from a particular state of
a plate, and so it is convenient to use 'impression', meaning
'impression from a state of a plate'.
'Copy' denotes an act of copying, either by hand ('manuscript copy of
...'), or by printing from a new printing surface or substrate derived
from a paper example of a map previously printed from another plate.
Separate from this is the derivation of printing substrates (new or
duplicate plates) direct from former plates, either photomechanically or
electrolytically. Or the derivation of new planographic printing
surfaces (stone, zinc or plastic) photomechanically from engraved
plates. But this is all much later than the sixteenth century ...
HTH
Andrew Cook
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How does one differentiate between a "copy" and "later state" of a map?
Al
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