Elements

Elements that make up the page don't break down easily into hierarchical units. How we would make something like this if we were starting from scratch & wanted to this Victorian type and woodcuts?

First, we can look at the elements that comprise the page. We can tell each page is individually important.
Each page has a text box, with decorative grapevines around the text box; inside the text box, the title gets its own page; on the second page, there's the title repeated, followed by two body paragraphs, separated by a fleuron.
The first paragraph gets an illustrated drop cap.
Each word, if you want to go down that far, is composed of letters.
But if you look closer, you'll find that the elements on the page don't decompose into categories quite so neatly.

If you look at the left-hand page, you can see that the title's not all there – this is the second title page in the book. The title isn't part of the rather, they're overlapping units.
And the page backgrounds aren't mirror images of each other: each has been created uniquely. Everything here's been precisely adjusted by hand.
You couldn't replicate this lettering with a font.

You can't really build a schema to represent what's on these two pages.