How to ? Old Engraving Book and Replicating the Gravures on Steel

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I am interested in engravings and found a book list about books printed 130 years ago . I want to buy one or two.
My question , how can I carry the little lines on engravings to the steel plate without loosing nothing ?

Umut

 

[MartinP]

How about copper instead? Copper etch as a hobby technique is well established and 'easy' to approach for experimentation because of the materials available for making pcb's. It is probably also done on many art-courses, with the 'genuine' materials and a well sorted out process. Why steel? Was that the original material?