Prints and printmaking Books
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Pictures of the Floating World
Book SynopsisIn Edo Japan, woodblock prints known asukiyo-e(pictures of the Floating World) captured the entertainment culture of the urban elite and eventually many other subjects as well. These beautiful prints were the result of a meticulous craft process, in which an artist's initial drawing was translated by expert carvers into multiple printing blocks for different colours. In this attractive volume, Sarah E. Thompson, curator of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provides a highly readable overview of the cultural and artistic history of ukiyo-e, showcasing 120 exceptional prints from the museum's world-class collection, by masters including Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. She explores each of the principal genres in turn: beauty and fashion, the kabuki theatre, landscape, nature, history and literature, and fantasy. Pictures of the Floating World features a traditional Japanese stab binding and is housed in a durable slipcase together with three remarkable prints, suitable for framing. It will be a must-have for all art lovers.
£26.96
The Crowood Press Ltd Fine Art Screenprinting
Book SynopsisFine Art Screenprinting explains the thrilling process of pushing ink through a mesh to produce large areas of vibrant colour. With step-by-step examples, it explains the many and varied ways of creating your designs as prints. It also encourages you to experiment, to achieve exciting and unexpected results. Written for beginners and enthusiasts, it will inspire and stretch artists to try new techniques and ideas. This new book covers the equipment and materials found in the printmaking studio and explains the screenprinting process and how to use positives with photo-sensitive emulsion. There is advice on printing techniques such as making prints from paper stencils and mono-printing and it also gives full guidance on screenprinting kits for use at home.
£16.14
Two Rivers Press Allen W. Seaby: Art and Nature
Book SynopsisAllen W. Seaby's life has been described as "a classic tale of Victorian self-improvement." But there is more to the tale than just upward mobility. A. W. Seaby was a pioneering, innovative and inspirational man who rose to become a prominent print-maker, teacher, author and illustrator. Best-known for his colour woodcut printing using traditional Japanese methods, and as a prominent wildlife artist, the story of Seaby's many accomplishments is recounted by his grandson, who inherited Seaby's love of birds and became internationally renowned in his own right, Robert Gillmor. Alongside this personal recount, Martin Andrews (Seaby's successor as President of the Reading Guild of Artists) selects aspects of his career and expands upon his techniques, his illustrative methods, his circle of fellow artists and the books he published to give a full and rounded account of a man whose work is currently enjoying a well-deserved renaissance.
£15.79
PIE Books Animals by Kuniyoshi: Ukiyo-E Paper Book
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£16.99
John Hudson Publishing Prints and the Landscape Garden
Book SynopsisThis book considers what prints tell us about the development of the landscape garden in 18th- and early 19th- century Britain. They formed a significant part of the expanding machinery of mass communication and could thus influence taste and spread ideas. This could lead to propaganda, or at least creation of an image the owner of a property found desirable, and reality was consequently often compromised. The illusion of actuality could be achieved by adjustments and techniques employed by artists generally. Even if not entirely representational, a print may reveal much about fashions and attitudes towards the landscape garden. At their best they powerfully convey the atmosphere of a garden as well as the perception and possible idealisation of it. The book breaks new ground, including discussion of techniques of producing a print, marketing, categories of print, and studies of the greatest engravers and a few select gardens that prints illuminate particularly well. Changes can be observed both in the developments in print-making and in the journey of the landscape garden. With 220 prints of the period to illustrate the text, all aspects of the subject are brought to the reader's attention.Trade ReviewMichael Symes's book is so sumptuously designed and produced in hardback landscape format that it warrants a slip case. It teems with illustrations, many in colour, almost all from the author's collection, reflecting his considerable scholarship, its emphasis firmly centred on the 18th century. * Country Life *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Image and Propaganda 2 Printomania 3 Pattern Books 4 Royal Landscapes 5 Stowe 6 Chiswick 7 The London Pleasure Gardens 8 Nuneham Courtenay 9 William Woollett 10 Luke Sullivan, Francois Vivares and Anthony Walker 11 Horace Walpole 12 The Gazetteers 13 Sets of Seats 14 The Picturesque 15 A Miscellany of Prints Select reading Index
£45.00
British Museum Press Revolution on Paper Mexican Prints 19101960
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£18.75
Taschen GmbH Pop Art
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£14.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Kallitype Vandyke Brown and Argyrotype
Book SynopsisFocusing on three iron-silver processeskallitype, Vandyke Brown, and argyrotypethis book will guide readers through how to create prints using these accessible and historic processes in the digital age.Often termed the Brownprint processes, author Donald W. Nelson provides step-by-step detail on how to create prints using kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype methods, including information on the materials needed, troubleshooting issues, and examples from contemporary artists. The book consists of two parts. Part I is a step-by-step how-to section including all the information that a practitioner at any level needs to achieve successful kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype prints. Part II is devoted to contemporary artists who have integrated the process into their creative practice.The book includes the following: A list of equipment and supplies needed Concise step-by-step instructions for creating kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype prTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Introduction to Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype Chapter 2. Chemistry Supplies Chapter 3. Setting up the Brownprint Dimroom Chapter 4. Creating the Digital Negative Chapter 5. Paper selection Chapter 6. Mixing Chemistry for the Processes - Sensitiers, Developers and Toners Chapter 7. Making the Kallitype Print Chapter 8. Making the Vandyke Brown Print Chapter 9. Making the Argyrotype Print Chapter 10. Troubleshooting Chapter 11. Making the Toned Print Chapter 12. Finishing Prints Chapter 13. Contemporary Artists Appendix A - Kallitype Developer Quadtonerip Ink Definiton Files Appendix B - Gold Toner Quadtonerip Ink Definition Files Appendix C - Prehumidified Argyrotype Quadtonerip Ink Definition File Bibliography
£43.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Gel Plate Printing for MixedMedia Art
Book SynopsisTechniques and projects for using a gel plate--inexpensive and simple--to elevate collage, art journaling, and mixed-media works.
£25.59
Steidl Publishers William Kentridge: Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1:
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£187.50
LEGARE STREET PR Albert Durer
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£19.95
LEGARE STREET PR Charles Conder His Life and Work
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£26.55
LEGARE STREET PR Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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£17.95
Ludion Books: Art, Craft & Community
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£22.50
Flame Tree Publishing Japanese Woodblocks 2026 Desk Diary Planner Week to View Illustrated Throughout
Book SynopsisThis desk diary is filled with a dazzling array of woodblock prints from masterful Japanese artists, featuring dramatic rocky cliffs, natural beauty and mountainous landscapes. Get a sense of their work with this week-to-view desk diary filled with their myriad prints. Printed on FSC-certified paper.
£11.69
Flame Tree Publishing Angela Harding 2026 Desk Diary Planner Week to View Illustrated throughout
Book SynopsisAngela Harding trained in Fine Art at Leicester Polytechnic and Nottingham Trent University. She now lives in the UK's smallest county, Rutland, where she works from her garden studio in Wing. Showcasing more than 30 of her incredible artworks, this week-to-view desk diary, printed on FSC-certified paper, is a charming gift or a treat for yourself.
£11.69
Design For Today The The Print Shop
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£10.00
Goose Lane Editions Black Ice
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£31.19
University of Alberta Press George Baxter, Master Colour Printer: Oil-Colour
Book SynopsisGeorge Baxter (1804-1867) was a pioneer in advancing the art of colour printing. A perfectionist, Baxter not only engraved but also examined the prints as they were produced, often providing touch-ups by hand. Baxter's process was, in the end, uneconomical, and he died bankrupt, but no one did more to bring vivid artworks within financial reach of every household, or leave a more colourful legacy for generations of admiring collectors of Victoriana. His oil-coloured prints have given viewers pleasure since they began appearing in the 1830s. Thanks to Donald and Barbara Cameron's generous donation of their Baxter collection in 2010, the Bruce Peel Special Collections & Archives was able to mount a remarkable exhibition.
£11.39
Lehigh University Press James Thomson's The Seasons, Print Culture, and
Book SynopsisDrawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions shaped reading habits. At the same time, through the addition of paratexts such as memoirs of Thomson, notes, and illustrations, it was recast by changing readerships, consumer fashions, and ideologies of culture. The book investigates the poem’s cultural afterlife by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. While the emphasis of the chapters is on printed visual culture in the form of book illustrations, the book also features discussions of paintings and other visual media such as furniture prints. Reading illustrations of iconographic moments from The Seasons as paratextual, interpretive commentaries that reflect multifarious reading practices as well as mentalities, the chapters contextualise the editions in light of their production and interpretive inscription. They introduce these editions’ publishers and designers who conceived visual translations of the text, as well as the engravers who rendered these designs in the form of the engraving plate from which the illustration could then be printed. Where relevant, the chapters introduce non-British illustrated editions to demonstrate in which ways foreign booksellers were conscious of British editions of The Seasons and negotiated their illustrative models in the sets of engraved plates they commissioned for their volumes.Trade ReviewRanging widely without sacrificing what is an exhaustive analysis of single images, the book wears its encyclopedic knowledge lightly.... What distinguishes James Thomson’s The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation,1730–1842 and what will win it a broad audience is Jung’s salutary commitment to “reconnecting” book-historical inquiries to art-critical discussions of illustration or iconotext... This focus on both the technological and cultural contexts for book illustration will attract a broad, interdisciplinary audience... Fusing book history with art criticism toinvestigate the intersections of technology, marketing, and eighteenth-century poetic reception, Jung’s study promises to reshape the field of book illustration studies. * ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews *More than 100 reproductions, many from the author's own collection, make this book impressive as a labor of love as well as of scholarship.... Jung has made a significant contribution to Thomson scholarship and the history of eighteenth century book illustration. * New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century *Sandro Jung’s study of The Seasons is a fresh and stimulating history of the publishing and marketing of one of the most popular texts of the eighteenth century. But it is also far more than that. This book radically extends our understanding of the cultural and economic value of Thomson’s poem by investigating its visual readings and its complex cultural afterlife within and far beyond Britain as the poem’s imagery morphed across an astonishing range of visual arts, including engravings in books, prints, cartoons, ceramics, furniture, and music. The result is a persuasive demonstration of the intersections between technology, aesthetics, commerce, market, and reception. -- James Raven, University of Essex and Magdalene College, University of CambridgeHere is the writing of a fresh new chapter in the scholarship of The Seasons. Consideration of print, paratexts, pictures, price, and pocket diaries all make for the richest contextualisation yet of the production and consumption of James Thomson's poetic masterpiece from its first appearance to the early decades of the nineteenth century. -- Gerard Carruthers, Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgments Reading the Visual Paratext Editions of The Seasons: 1730–1798 Paintings and Prints Subscription Ventures, Pocket Diaries, and Up-Market Prints Editions of The Seasons: 1802–1842 Epilogue
£33.25
Redcliffe Press Ltd Geoffrey and Jill Garnier: A Marriage of the Arts
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£14.20
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Krishna'S Cosmos the Creativity of an Artist,
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of Krishna Reddy's viscosity prints. Krishna Reddy worked a revolution in printmaking by discovering this method of printing numerous colours from a single metal plate.
£28.50
New Generation Publishing Learning Linocut
Book SynopsisLearning Linocut is an exciting and detailed guide to the art of relief printing by exploring linocut. The book takes the reader on a comprehensive tour of the whole creative process, from generating ideas and setting up a studio space to cutting techniques, mark-making and printing a lino block. The book also covers more complex techniques for multiple-coloured linocuts including the reduction technique, the key-block system and experimental linocutting. Learning Linocut contains plenty of easy to follow step-by-step guides (illustrated by colour photos), interesting and innovative suggestions of ways to work with lino and even useful 'tips' from the author providing extra pointers for things to try next. The linocut techniques discussed in this book can either be carried out at home or in a professional printmaking studio.• Packed full of colour images• Step-by-step guides to each technique• Provides lists of materials
£22.52
Italica Press aldusandhisdreambook
£19.95
Pegasus Press Ltd An Australian Artist in London The Untold Story of Hewitt Henry Rayner 19021957 and His Friendship with Walter Sickert
£27.00
Nadel Und Faden Press LLC Landsknechts on Campaign Battle and Siege Scenes in Detail from Geisbergs German Single Sheet Woodcuts 1 Selections from Geisbergs German Woodcuts
£34.00
Legare Street Press Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Important Manuscripts Formed by the Late Rev. Dr. Wellesley Principal of the New Inn Hall Oxford
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£13.22
Legare Street Press The Printcollectors Bulletin
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£32.25
Legare Street Press A Description of the Works of the Ingenious Delineator and Engraver Wenceslaus Hollar
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£23.70
Legare Street Press Roll of Honour for the Burgh and Parish of Auchterarder. The Great War 19141919 1920
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£22.75
Legare Street Press Catalogue of the Collection of Engravings of the Late William Clarence Burrage of Boston Mass
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£21.80
Legare Street Press Catalogue of Etchings and Dry Points by Rembrandt
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£14.09
Legare Street Press American Engravers and Their Works 1875
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£13.95
Legare Street Press Collectio Sculptarum microform
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£13.22
Legare Street Press Hillhead High School War Memorial Volume 1921
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£24.65
Legare Street Press Handbook of Lithography
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£18.95
Legare Street Press The Great Painteretchers From Rembrandt to Whistler by Malcolm C. Salaman ...
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Legare Street Press Engraving
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Legare Street Press Hiroshige the Artist of Mist Snow and Rain
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£13.22
Legare Street Press The Tosti Engravings
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£24.65
Legare Street Press Seventh Loan Exhibition
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£21.80
Legare Street Press Etchings by Modern Masters and Mezzotints in Colors
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£21.80
Legare Street Press The Magnificent Collection of Engraved Portraits Formed by the Late Edward R. Cope ... American Theatrical and Napoleoniana ...
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Legare Street Press An Important Collection of Etchings Engravings Water Colors and Oil Paintings
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Legare Street Press Memorials of the Scottish Family of Glen
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Legare Street Press The Arbroath Year Book and Fairport Almanac
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Legare Street Press Edwardss Botanical Register v. 27 1841
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Legare Street Press The Arbroath Year Book and Fairport Almanac
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