Woodburytypes were used most often in book illustration as once the
original mold is made unskilled labor could make prints by the thousands.
Its real demise came as a result of the halftone reproduction that allowed
type and image to be printed on the same piece of paper on the press at the
same time. Woodburytypes inherently have messy borders making it necessary
to always trim the print and eventually tip it on to another sheet of paper
for final presentation. This ended up pretty labor intensive for books so
when all this could be done albeit with much less quality in one step, the
woodburytype faded.
I have been collecting woodburytypes for some time and the most beautiful
and often the most common are portraits of the then rich and famous.
Hope this helps.