The Print in the Western World: An Introductory History.

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, (1996). Second printing. 4to (11.5" x 8.75"), xx & 948 pages, illustrated in color & black & white. Publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.

Couple of minute bruises at the top edge of the rear cover, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket with just a hint of edge wear.

An exhaustive, well-illustrated account. Contents include: Early Relief and Intaglio Techniques: Northern Printmakers before Durer; Durer and Other Sixteenth-Century Northern Artists; Italian Renaissance Prints; Etching in the Seventeenth Century; Reproductive Printmaking and Related Developments from the Later Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Century; Original Etching and Engraving in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; The Print and Socio-Political Reform: Hogarth and His Heirs and Goya; -- Lithography in the Nineteenth Century; The Nineteenth Century: The Etching Revival and New Technical Approaches; The German Expressionists and Related Artists; Picasso and other European Printmakers to the 1940s; American and Mexican Printmaking to the Mid-1940s; Printmaking in Europe and America after World War II; & Selected Bibliography of Print Reference Catalogs.