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life. Despite this limitation, his prints were clearly widely circulated, as many copies of them exist by other printmakers. This is highly typical of admired prints in all media until at least 1520; there was no enforceable concept of anything like copyright. Many of the Housebook Master's print compositions are only known from copies, as none of the presumed originals have survived -- a very high proportion of his original prints are only known from a single impression. The largest collection of his prints is at Amsterdam; these were probably

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