Further reading
For more titles see Prints and Drawings Catalogues.
This list is only books written in English.
Books on the techniques of printmaking
and drawing
General books on printmaking and the history
of prints
General books on the history of
drawing
Books on the Department of Prints and
Drawings in the British Museum
New Publications
Stephen Coppel, The American Scene: prints from Hopper to
Pollock, 1905-1960, a catalogue of an exhibition at the British
Museum, April – September 2008, 271 pp., 162 colour illus.
Kim Sloan, A New World: England's First View of America, a
catalogue of an exhibition at the British Museum, March - June
2007, 256 pp., 250 colour illus.
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Books on the techniques of printmaking and drawing
P. Goldman, Looking at Prints, Drawings and Watercolours: a
guide to technical terms (London, The British Museum Press / Getty,
1994)
64pp., 24 colour, 44 b&w illus.
B. Gascoigne, How to identify prints: a complete guide to manual
and mechanical processes from woodcut to inkjet (London, Thames
& Hudson 1986)
208pp., 39 colour, 232 b&w illus.
W. Ivins, How prints look: photographs with a commentary (New
York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1943, and later reprints)
164pp., 128 b&w illus.
C. James and others, Old Master Prints and Drawings: a Guide to
Preservation and Conservation, translated by Marjorie B.Cohn
(Amsterdam University Press, 1997)
S. Lambert, Drawing: Technique and Purpose (London, Victoria and
Albert Museum, 1981)
J. Watrous, The Craft of Old Master Drawings (University of
Wisconsin Press, 1957)
170pp. numerous b&w illus.
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General books on printmaking and the history of prints
A. Griffiths, Prints and Printmaking (London, The British Museum
Press, 1996)
contains an extensive bibliography
A.M .Hind, A History of Engraving and Etching from the 15th
century to 1914, 3rd ed. (New York 1923, and later reprints)
487pp., 110 b&w illus.
L.C. Hults, The Print in the Western World, an introductory
history (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996)
948pp, c.650 b&w, 49 colour illus.
A. Hyatt Mayor, Prints and People, a social history of printed
pictures (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971)
765pp., 752 b&w illus.
D. Landau and P. Parshall, The Renaissance Print 1470-1550 (Yale
University Press, 1994)
448pp., 50 colour, 335 b&w illus.
R. Godfrey, Printmaking in Britain, a general history from the
beginnings to the present day, (Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1978)
244pp., 152 b&w illus.
T. Clayton, The English Print 1688-1802 (Yale University Press,
1997)
352pp., 30 colour, 270 b&w illus.
S. O'Connell, The Popular Print in England (London, The British
Museum Press, 1999)
256pp., 5 colour and 187 b&w illus.
A. Dyson, Pictures to Print, the nineteenth-century engraving
trade (London, Farrand Press, 1984)
234 pp., 95 b&w illus.
P. Gilmour, Modern Prints (London, Studio Vista, 1970)
167 pp., 3 colour, 129 b&w illus.
R. Castleman, Prints of the Twentieth Century, a history
(London, Thames and Hudson, 1976)
216pp., 179 b&w and colour illus.
M. Timmers (ed.), Impressions of the Twentieth Century: fine art
prints from the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, Victoria
& Albert Museum, 2001)
176pp., 100 colour plates
M. P. McDonald, The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus
(1488-1539): a renaissance collector in Seville (London, British
Museum Press with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program,
2004)
Two vols with CD: 1,042 pp., 22 colour, 520 b&w illus.
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General books on the history of drawing
J. Meder, The Mastery of Drawing, 2 vols., tr. by Winslow Ames
(New York, Abaris Press, 1978)
315 b&w illus.
C. Eisler, A Treasury of Great Master Drawings (London, Phaidon
Press, 1975)
F. Ames-Lewis, Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy, 2nd edition
(New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2000)
C.C. Bambach, Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance
Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300-1600 (Cambridge, Mass., Yale
University Press, 1999)
N. Turner, The Study of Italian Drawings: the contribution of
Philip Pouncey (London, The British Museum Press, 1994)
127pp., 97 b&w illus.
M. Hardie, Watercolour Painting in Britain, 3 vols (London,
Batsford,1966-8)
numerous b&w illus.
A. Wilton, British Watercolours 1750-1850 (Oxford, Phaidon
Press, 1977)
208pp., 170 b&w and collection illus.
A. Wilton & A. Lyles, The Great Age of British Watercolours
1750-1880 (London, Royal Academy of Art, 1993)
326 colour, 54 b&w illus.
H. Chapman, Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master (London,
British Museum Press, 2005)
320 pp., 203 colour, 80 b&w illus.
W. Vaughan et al., Samuel Palmer (1805-1881): Vision and
Landscape (London, British Museum Press, 2005)
256 pp., 250 colour illus.
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Books on the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British
Museum
A. Griffiths and R. Williams, The Department of Prints and
Drawings in the British Museum: User's Guide (London, The British
Museum Press, 1987)
189pp., not illus.
A.E.Popham, A Handbook to the Drawings and Watercolours in the
Department of Prints and Drawings (London, The British Museum,
1939)
144pp., 8 b&w illus.
A. Griffiths (ed.), Landmarks in Print Collecting (London, The
British Museum Press, 1996)
304pp., 9 colour, 159 b&w illus.
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