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• Prints and People: A Social History of Printed Pictures (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, c1971), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Die Antiken Gemmen, Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im Klassischen Altertum (3 volumes, n German; Leipzig: Giesecke und Devrient, 1900), by Adolf Furtwängler
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• How Prints Look: Photographs with a Commentary (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943), by William Mills Ivins (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Society and Style: Prints from the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2014), ed. by Alison G. Stewart and Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• Le Tableau des Riches Inventions, Couvertes du Voile des Feintes Amoureuses, Qui Sont Représentées dans le Songe de Poliphile: Desvoilées des Ombres du Songe et Subtilement Exposées (in French; Paris: M. Guillemot, 1600), by Francesco Colonna, contrib. by Béroalde de Verville
  • page images at Tours
  • page images at Gallica
  • PDF at e-rara-ch

• Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawings (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981), by Janet S. Byrne (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
  • Part 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust

• Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe (Los Angeles: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1997), by Kevin Salatino (page images and PDF wih commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Engraven Desire: Eros, Image and Text in the French Eighteenth Century (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Philip Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe (Los Angeles: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1997), by Kevin Salatino (page images and PDF wih commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Colta Feller Ives (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Harry Bertoia, Printmaker: Monotypes and Other Monographics (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), by June Kompass Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at wayneopen.org)

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs: An Illustrated Guide, by Bernard Reilly (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

• The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), by Michal Lewis, R. E. Lewis, and Suzanne Boorsch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide to the Collections: Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide to the Collections: Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs: An Illustrated Guide, by Bernard Reilly (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

• Ancient Art in Miniature: Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Holly Pittman, contrib. by Joan Aruz (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Carmen Bambach and Nadine Orenstein, contrib. by William Griswold and Allegra Pesenti (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• How Prints Look: Photographs with a Commentary (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943), by William Mills Ivins (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• An Account of a Method of Etching or Engraving, via Sicca, by Means of Voltaic Electricity (Weston-Super-Mare, J. Whereat; et al., 1848), by James H. Pring
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce sur l'Airin, par le Moyen des Eaux Fortes, et des Vernix Durs et Mols (in French; Paris: Bosse, 1645), by Abraham Bosse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wood Engraving (London: Ditchling Press, 1921), by R. John Beedham, contrib. by Eric Gill (HTML at woodblock.com)
• Hand-Book of Wood Engraving (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881), by William A. Emerson (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method, by Frank Morley Fletcher (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• Japanese Woodblock Printing, by Hiroshi Yoshida (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

• Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce sur l'Airin, par le Moyen des Eaux Fortes, et des Vernix Durs et Mols (in French; Paris: Bosse, 1645), by Abraham Bosse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)

• Japanese Colour Prints, by Laurence Binyon and J. J. O'Brien Sexton (page images at CMU)
• The Japanese Print: An Interpretation (Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1912), by Frank Lloyd Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese Wood-Cutting and Wood-Cut Printing, by T. Tokuno (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

• The Masters of Ukioye: A Complete Historical Description of Japanese Paintings and Color Prints of the Genre School (c1896), by Ernest Fenollosa, contrib. by William H. Ketcham and Frederick William Gookin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Masters of Ukioye: A Complete Historical Description of Japanese Paintings and Color Prints of the Genre School (c1896), by Ernest Fenollosa, contrib. by William H. Ketcham and Frederick William Gookin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Hizakurige Gajō: Tokaidō Meisho (illustrations and selections from the 19th century comic novel, Tokaidochu Hizakurige: A Shanks' Mare tour of the Tokaido; in Japanese; originally published Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, ca. 1868), by Ikku Jippensha, illust. by Tamenobu Fujikawa (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Collections)

• The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Colta Feller Ives (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Engravings of Albrecht Durer (London: Seely; New York : Macmillan, 1894), by Lionel Cust (PDF at Case Western)

• Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce sur l'Airin, par le Moyen des Eaux Fortes, et des Vernix Durs et Mols (in French; Paris: Bosse, 1645), by Abraham Bosse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce sur l'Airin, par le Moyen des Eaux Fortes, et des Vernix Durs et Mols (in French; Paris: Bosse, 1645), by Abraham Bosse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mediaeval Gem Engraving, by C. W. King (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)

• Mezzotints, by Cyril Davenport (page images at CMU)

• Block Printing Craft (Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, c1938), by Raymond W. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Experience of the Medium (1978), by Johanna Drucker (Flash page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)
• Etchings, by Frederick Wedmore (page images at CMU)

• The Senefelder Club (London: XXI Gallery, Adelphi, 1922), by Campbell Dodgson and Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Colta Feller Ives (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Japanese Woodblock Printing, by Hiroshi Yoshida (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• Japanese Wood-Cutting and Wood-Cut Printing, by T. Tokuno (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method, by Frank Morley Fletcher (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.