Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. image-making equipment
8. [equipment for printing and printmaking]
9. printing surfaces (equipment)
10. printing plates

Anotations

Scope note:

Metal printing plates made by taking a mold of set type and/or relief block(s), and making a cast in type metal. The type and pictorial images were sometimes stereotyped together into a single plate (i.e. one page of a book).