Old American Prints for Collectors

ix, 277 pp. "This book covers the history of American printmaking from its beginnings to about 1880. It includes seventeenth and eighteenth century woodcuts and engravings; nineteenth century engravings; the prints of Currier and Ives; the significant prints of other important firms... Of particular value to the collector are chapters on the mechanics of printmaking, and the care, preservation, and purchasing of prints. There is a glossary of print terms, a list of names in American printmaking from 1670 to 1880, a selected list of nineteenth century color plate books, and over 200 illustrations."