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Prints: A Brief Review of Their Technique and History

Chapter 15: Books Recommended for Study of Prints
By Emil H. Richter
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The text offers a concise, accessible introduction to printmaking techniques and history. It explains the principal methods—woodcut and wood-engraving, engraving, dry-point, mezzotint, etching, and lithography—and the presses used, then surveys the art’s development from early utilitarian block prints through Renaissance intaglio and woodcut traditions to later national schools across Europe and America. Illustrated examples and discussions of topics such as chiaroscuro, color printing, publishing practices, and nineteenth-century revivals accompany recommendations for further reading.

To those bent on further inquiry into the subject of prints, two books of prime importance can be most warmly recommended, namely:—

Hind, Arthur M. A Short History of Engraving and etching, with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1908.

(An excellent, comprehensive book, with exhaustive lists and indexes, dealing with intaglio prints up to the present day.)

Kristeller, Paul. Kupferstich und Holzschnitt in vier Jahrhunderten. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1905.

(A masterly review of the whole field of prints, including woodcuts, but unfortunately exclusive of the nineteenth century. This also contains an extensive bibliography.)

The careful perusal of either book will provide a good foundation, and the excellent lists of books at the end of each of them will safely guide the reader in his subsequent studies.

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS
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