Surveys the historical development of printmaking, the care and restoration of prints, and the techniques for relief, intaglio, planographic, and screen process printing.

An excellent aid to scholars and students of one of the finest Japanese artistic achievements, the woodblock print. The 1,231 citations of English-language literature concerning Japanese prints cover the period from 1861 to 1980; many of the citations include valuable annotations.

This comprehensive bibliography for print collectors, dealers, librarians, archivists, and others draws upon catalogues raisonné and monographs; checklists of prints; articles from scholarly art journals and popular periodicals; publications of print workshops; articles from encyclopedias; dissertations and theses that are available to the public.