What did Doubleday's casts allow smaller collections to do?
Hold copies
Sell originals
Create new artifacts
Display paintings
Answer
Doubleday's casts allowed smaller collections to hold copies of books that were otherwise unavailable to them. These casts were made from plaster molds of the original book pages, and they could be used to create new copies of the book on demand.
Restoring the Past: The Legacy of John Doubleday
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