Imprint Book Reviews

Bibliography of Book Reviews Published in Imprint

Compiled by Sally Pierce

This bibliography first appeared in printed form in the Spring 2020 issue of Imprint.

This page lists all book reviews that have appeared in Imprint, the scholarly journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, from Volume 1 (1976) to the present. The entries in this list are also integrated into the annotated bibliography of Imprint articles.

Reviews of books relevant to the field of American historical prints have been published in Imprint since the first issue in February 1976. Reviewed books include monographs and catalogues raisonné of individual artists; studies of visual representations of particular cities and regions during various eras of exploration and development; documentation of military, political, and social conflicts; investigations of particular printmaking mediums and format; guides tailored for collectors; exhibition catalogs; and conference proceedings.

 

Imprint Book Review Editors (1979-Present)

Rebecca Szantyr (2022-)
Rosemary Tovell (Spring 2012 – 2022)
Sally Pierce (Spring 2009 – Autumn 2011)
Thomas Bruhn (Autumn 2003 – Autumn 2009)
Thomas Beckman (Spring 1988 – Spring 2003)
David Butros (Autumn 1985 – Autumn 1987)
Lauris Mason (June 1979 – Spring 1985)

Note: Entries in this bibliography are arranged alphabetically by the author or editor of the book being reviewed. If there is more than one book by the same author, dashes are used instead of repeating the name after the first entry.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z |

 

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Allodi, Mary Macaulay, and Rosemarie L. Tovell. An Engraver’s Pilgrimage: James Smillie in Quebec, 1821–1830. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. Imprint, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring 1990, 46–47. Reviewed by Brucia Witthoft.

Ambroziak, Brian M., and Jeffrey R. Ambroziak. Infinite Perspectives: Two Thousand Years of Three-Dimensional Mapmaking. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. Imprint, vol. 26, no. 2, Autumn 2001, 34–35. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Arader, W. Graham III. Native Grace: Prints of the New World, 1590–1876. Charlottesville, VA: Thomason-Grant, 1988. Imprint, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 1989, 37. Briefly noted by Thomas Beckman.

Art Address Verlag. International Directory of Arts, 1987–88, 18th edition, 2 vols. Frankfurt: Art Address Verlag, 1986; distributed in the US by Gale Research Company. Imprint, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 1988, 29. Briefly noted by Rona Schneider.

Auchincloss, Louise, ed. The Hone and Strong Diaries of Old Manhattan. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. Imprint, vol. 16, no. 2, Autumn 1991, 32. Briefly noted by Rona Schneider.

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Bannon, Lois Elmer, and Taylor Clark. Handbook of Audubon Prints. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1980. Imprint, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 1981, 34–35. Reviewed by Karen Andersen.

Bansner, Phil, compiler. The Lithography of Theodore Leonhardt. West Lawn, PA: Phil Bansner, 1993. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn 1994, 44. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Baragwanath, Albert K. 100 Currier & Ives Favorites. New York: Crown Publishers, an Artabras Book, 1979. Imprint, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1980, 30–31. Reviewed by Ewell L. Newman.

Barnhill, Georgia B. Bibliography of American Prints of the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Centuries. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press and the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2006. Imprint, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2007, 37–38. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

———. The Catalogue of American Engravings: A Manual for Users. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2000. Imprint, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2001, 32. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———, editor. Prints of New England. Papers given at the seventh North American Print Conference. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1991. Imprint, vol. 16, no. 2, Autumn 1991, 29–30. Reviewed by Wendy Shadwell.

———. Wild Impressions: The Adirondacks on Paper. Prints from the Collection of the Adirondack Museum. Boston: David R. Godine with the Adirondack Museum, 1995. Imprint, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring 1996, 31. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———, editor. With a French Accent: American Lithography to 1860. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2012. Imprint, vol. 37, no. 2, Autumn 2012, 58–59. Reviewed by Nancy Finlay.

———, Diana Korzenik, and Caroline F. Sloat, editors.
The Cultivation of Artists in Nineteenth-Century America. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1997. Imprint, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring 1998, 27–28. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———, and Melissa Geisler Trafton, with a forward by Martha Oaks. Drawn from Nature & on Stone: The Lithographs of
Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum, 2017. Imprint, vol. 42, no. 2, Autumn 2017, 45–48. Reviewed by Rosemarie L. Tovell.

Baskett, Mary Welch. John Henry Twachtman: American Impressionist Painter as Printmaker, A Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints. With a List of Prints by Martha Scudder Twachtman. Bronxville, NY: M. Hausberg, 1999. Imprint, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2001, 33–34. Reviewed by Rona Schneider.

Beckman, Thomas. Milwaukee Illustrated: Panoramic and Bird’s-Eye Views of a Midwestern Metropolis, 1844–1908. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Center, 1978. Imprint, vol. 3, no. 2, 1978, 9. Reviewed by Marshall R. Berkoff.

Berkoff, Marshall, editor. Currier & Ives: The New Best Fifty. Farmingdale, NY: The American Historical Print Collectors Society, 1991, limited edition of 2,000 copies. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 40–41.

Bickford-Swarthout, Doris. Mary Hallock Foote: Pioneer Woman Illustrator. Deansboro, NY: Berry Hill Press, 1996. Imprint, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring 1999, 37–38. Reviewed by Sue Rainey.

Birdson, Gavin D. R., James J. White, and Lugene B. Bruno. American Botanical Prints of Two Centuries. Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003. Imprint, vol. 30, no. 2, Autumn 2005, 46–47. Reviewed by Michael McCue.

Bland, Jane Cooper. Currier & Ives, a Manual for Collectors. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 37.

Blum, Ann Shelby. Picturing Nature. American Nineteenth-Century Zoological Illustration. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn 1994, 42. Reviewed by Georgia B. Barnhill.

Boehme, Sarah E., editor. John James Audubon in the West: The Last Expedition; Mammals of North America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 2000. Imprint, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2001, 32–33. Reviewed by Margaret Welch.

Bohleke, Karin J. “Americanizing French Fashion Plates: Godey’s and Peterson’s Cultural and Economic Translation of Les Modes Parisiennes.” Article published in a special issue of American Periodicals: A Journal of History and Criticism, vol. 20, no. 2, 2010, published by Ohio State University Press for the Research Society for American Periodicals, and devoted to “American Periodicals and Visual Culture.” Imprint, vol. 35, no. 2, Autumn 2010, 47. Briefly Noted by Sue Rainey.

Bonfante-Warren, Alexandra. Currier & Ives: Portraits of a Nation. New York: Metro Books, 1998. Imprint, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring 1999, 37. Reviewed by Marshall Berkoff.

Brandt, Frederick R., Robert Koch, and Philip B. Meggs. Designed to Sell: Turn-of-the-Century American Posters. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1994. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1995, 38–39. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Brandt, William H. Interpretive Wood-Engraving: The Story of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. Imprint, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 2012, 40–42. Reviewed by Rosemarie Tovell.

Braun, Nancy and Robert, compilers. An Audubon Concordance: Migration through the Plate Numbers. Fairfield, CT: American Historical Print Collectors Society, 1999. Imprint, vol. 24, no. 2, Autumn 1999, 40. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Brewington, Dorothy E. R. Dictionary of Marine Artists. Mystic, CT, and Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem and Mystic Seaport Museum., 1982. Imprint, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 1985, 28. Reviewed by Salvatore Cilella.

Brown, Joshua. Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. Imprint, vol. 29, no. 2, Autumn 2004, 39–40. Reviewed by Richard O. Hathaway.

Brown, Lloyd A. The Story of Maps. New York: Dover Publications, 1977. Reprint of the 1949 Little, Brown edition. Imprint, vol. 10, no.1, Spring 1985, 29. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

Bruhn, Thomas P. American Etching: The 1880s. Exhibition catalog. Storrs: The William Benton Museum of the University of Connecticut, 1985. Imprint, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn 1985, 29. Reviewed by David Tatham.

———, with Kate Steinway. The American Print: Originality and Experimentation, 1790–1890. Exhibition catalog. Storrs, CT: The William Benton Museum of Art, 1993. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1994, 33–34. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Buchsbaum, Ann. Practical Guide to Print Collecting. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975. Imprint, vol. 4, no. 1, April 1979, 10. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

Buisseret, David, ed. From Sea Charts to Satellite Images: Interpreting North American History Through Maps. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Imprint, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 1991, 32. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Bunker, Gary L. From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln’s Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860–1865. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2001. Imprint, Vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 2002, 40–42. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.

Burns, Sarah. Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century Art and Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. Imprint, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 1992, 40–41. Reviewed by Richard O. Hathaway.

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Cape Ann Museum. Laid Down on Paper: Printmaking in America, 1800-1865. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum, 2020. Imprint, vol. 46, no. 2, Autumn 2021, 30-32. Reviewed by Thomas B. Bruhn.

Carlebach, Michael L. The Origins of Photojournalism in America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Imprint, vol. 18, no. 2, Autumn 1993, 36. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Chalmers, Claudine. Chronicling the West for “Harper’s”: Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavenier in 1873–1874. Volume 12 in the Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography in the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Imprint, vol. 39, no. 2, Autumn 2014, 44–46. Reviewed by Sally Pierce.

Chambers, Emma. An Indolent and Blundering Art? The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England, 1838–1892. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1999. Imprint, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring 2000, 37–38. Reviewed by Rosemarie Tovell.

Chandler, Robert J. San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown. Volume 14 in the Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography in the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Imprint, vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 2015, 44–45. Reviewed by Georgia Barnhill.

Cheadle, Dave, with Russ Mascieri. Victorian Trade Cards: Historical Reference & Value Guide. Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1996. Imprint, vol. 21, no. 2, Autumn 1996, 36. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Child, Deborah M. Soldier, Engraver, Forger: Richard Brunton’s Life on the Fringe in America’s New Republic. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Imprint, vol. 40, no. 2, Autumn 2015, 45–46. Reviewed by Nancy Finlay.

Christie’s Auction Galleries, New York. Important Early American Bank Notes, 1810–1874, from the Archives of the American Bank Note Company, 14–15 September 1990. Auction catalog. Imprint, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 1991, 32. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Claassen, Lynda Corey. Finder’s Guide to Prints and Drawings in the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Imprint, vol. 7, no. 2, Autumn 1982, 32–33. Reviewed by Georgia B. Bumgardner.

Colt, Charles C. Jr., editor. The Official Sotheby Parke Bernet Price Guide to Antiques and Decorative Arts. New York: Simon and Schuster/A Fireside Book, 1980. Imprint, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 1981, 32. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

Conningham, Frederic A. Currier & Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check-List. New updated edition. New York: Crown Publishers, 1983. Imprint, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 1984, 26. Reviewed by Ewell L. Newman. Also reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 36.

Connolly, Robert D. Paper Collectibles. Florence, AL: Books Americana, 1981. Distributed by Crown Publishers, NY. Imprint, vol. 7, no. 2, Autumn 1982, 35. Reviewed by Joan Ludman.

Cook, Preston, with a forward by Rolf Thompson. American Eagle: A Visual History of Our National Emblem. San Francisco: Goff Books, 2019. Imprint, vol. 45, no. 1, Spring 2020, 20-21. Reviewed by Sally Pierce.

Cooperman, Emily T., and Lea Carson Sherk. William Birch: Picturing the American Scene. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Imprint, vol. 38, no. 1, Spring 2013, 42–44. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

Cornell, Alice M., editor. Art as Image: Prints and Promotion in Cincinnati, Ohio. Athens: Ohio University Press in association with the University of Cincinnati Digital Press, 2001. Imprint, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 2002, 38–39. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Cresswell, Donald H. The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1975. Imprint, vol. 8, no. 2, Autumn 1983, 27. Reviewed by Salvatore G. Cilella.

———. The Arader Grading System for Maps, Books and Prints. Catalogue 28. King of Prussia, PA/ Houston, TX: W. Graham Arader III, 1981. Imprint, vol. 8, no. 2, Autumn 1983, 28. Reviewed by William Diebold.

Cummings, William P. British Maps of Colonial America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. Imprint, vol. 1, no. 2, Oct. 1976, 4 and 10. Reviewed by Ewell L. Newman.

Cunningham, Nobel E. The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye: Portraits for the People, 1800–1809. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981. Imprint, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 1984, 26–27. Reviewed by William Diebold.

———. Popular Images of the Presidency: From Washington to Lincoln. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991. Imprint, vol. 17, no. 2, Autumn 1992, 39. Reviewed by Georgia B. Barnhill.

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Danforth, Susan. Encountering the New World: 1493 to 1800. Exhibition catalog. Providence, RI: The John Carter Brown Library, 1991. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1994, 37–38. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

Davidson, Marshall B. New York. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977. Imprint, vol. 3, no. 2, November 1978, 9–10. Reviewed by Gloria-Gilda Deák.

Davis, Elliot Bostwick. “The Currency of Culture: Prints in New York City,” in Art and the Empire City, New York, 1825–1861. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. Imprint, vol. 26, no. 2, Autumn 2001, 35–36. Reviewed by Georgia B. Barnhill.

Deák, Gloria-Gilda. American Views, Prospects and Vistas. With an introduction by James Thomas Flexner,
“The City in the American Land.” New York: Viking Press, and the New York Public Library, 1976. Imprint, vol. 2, no. 2, 1977, 9–10. Reviewed by Robert F. Looney.

———. Discovering America’s Southeast: A Sixteenth-Century View Based on the Mannerist Engravings of Theodore de Bry. Exhibition catalog. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Public Library Press, 1992. Imprint, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 1993, 34. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

———. Picturing America, 1497–1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is Now the United States, from the I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection and Other Collections in the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs of the New York Public Library. Two volumes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Imprint, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring 1990, 47–48. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———. Picturing New York: The City from Its Beginnings to
the Present. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Imprint, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2001, 35. Reviewed by James S. Brust.

———. William James Bennett: Master of the Aquatint View. New York: New York Public Library, 1988. Imprint, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 1989, 32. Reviewed by E. McSherry Fowble.

Decker, Ronald M. Kauterskill Falls: 1795–1895. Exhibition catalog. Haines Falls, NY: The Mountaintop Historical Society 1991. Imprint, vol. 16, no. 2, Autumn 1991, 32. Briefly Noted by Rona Schneider.

Delaney, Edmund T. K. The Kellys: Printmakers of New York and Philadelphia (1864–1881). Chester, CT: Connecticut River Publications, 1984. Imprint, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 1988, 29. Briefly Noted by Rona Schneider.

Diebold, William. Rockland County in Old Prints, 1750–1900. Nyack, NY: The Edward Hopper Landmark Preservation Foundation, Inc., 1986. Imprint, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 1988, 29. Briefly Noted by Rona Schneider.

Doggett, Rachel, et al. New World of Wonders: European Images of the Americas, 1492–1700. Exhibition catalog, Folger Library, Washington, DC. Seattle: Washington University Press, 1992. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1994, 37–38. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

Dolmetsch, Joan D. Eighteenth-Century Prints in Colonial America: To Educate and Decorate. Proceedings of the 1973 North American Print Conference held at Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1979. Imprint, vol. 4, no. 2, Autumn 1979, 31. Reviewed by McSherry Fowble.

Donson, Theodore B. Prints and the Print Market. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. Imprint, vol. 4, no. 1, April 1979, 12. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

Dorothy Sloan Rare Books. The Henry H. Clifford Collection of California Pictorial Letter Sheets. Austin, TX: Dorothy Sloan Rare Books, 1994. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1995, 38. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Dover Publications. Early Woodcut Views of New York and New Jersey. New York: Dover Publications, 1975. Imprint, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1980, 30. Reviewed by Gloria-Gilda Deák.

Dunlap, William. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. A reprint of the original 1834 edition, edited by Rita Weiss, with an introduction by James T. Flexner, two volumes bound as three. New York: Dover Publications, 1969. Imprint, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 1981, 32–33. Reviewed by William Diebold Jr.

Durant, Mary, and Michael Harwood. On the Road with John James Audubon. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1980. Imprint, vol. 7, no. 2, Autumn 1982, 34. Reviewed by Monica Burdeshaw.

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Ebert, John and Katherine. Old American Prints for Collectors. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974. Imprint, vol. 1, no. 1, Feb. 1976, 5. Reviewed by Ewell L. Newman.
See also, Imprint, vol. 4, no. 1, April 1979, 10. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

Emlen, Robert P. Imagining the Shakers: How the Visual Culture of Shaker Life was Pictured in the Popular Illustrated Press of Nineteenth-Century America. Clinton, NY: Richard W. Couper Press, 2019. Imprint, vol. 46, no. 2, Autumn 2021, 33-34. Reviewed by Julie Nicoletta.

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Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Print Price Index: 1990–1991 Auction Season. Includes directory of dealers and bibliography. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1991. Imprint, vol. 17, no. 2, Autumn 1992, 39–40. Briefly Noted by Thomas Beckman.

———, editor-in-chief. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999. Imprint, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring 2000, 39. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Farwell, Beatrice. French Popular Lithographic Imagery, 1815–1870. Vol. 12, Lithography in Art and Commerce. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Imprint, vol. 23, no. 2, Autumn 1998, 38. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Faupel, W. John. “A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia:” A Study of the de Bry Engravings. East Grinstead, England: Antique Atlas Publications, 1989. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1994, 35–37. Reviewed by Christopher W. Lane.

Felcone, Joseph J. Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761–1898, from the Collection of Joseph J. Felcone. With an introduction by Elizabeth G. Allan. Princeton: Morven Museum & Garden, 2012. Imprint, vol. 38, no. 2, Autumn 2013, 53–54. Reviewed by Nancy Finlay.

Fenn, Patricia, and Alfred P. Malpa. Rewards of Merit: Tokens of a Child’s Progress and a Teacher’s Esteem as an Enduring Aspect of American Religious and Secular Education. Cazenovia, NY: Ephemera Society of America, 1994. Imprint, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 2002, 42–43. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Fielding, Mantle. American Engravers upon Copper and Steel. Photo reprint of the original first edition. Mamaroneck, NY: Sam Seiffer, 1993. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1995, 40. Reviewed by Rona Schneider.

Finlay, Nancy. Inventing the American Past: The Art of F.O.C. Darley. New York: New York Public Library, 1999. Imprint, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring 2000, 38–39. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———, editor. Picturing Victorian America. Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830–1880. Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society; distributed by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2009. Imprint, vol. 34, no. 2, Autumn 2009, 43–44. Reviewed by Rosemarie Tovell.

Finley, William, and Joseph Rosenblum, editors. Chaucer Illustrated. Five Hundred Years of “The Canterbury Tales” in Pictures. New Castle, DE and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2003. Imprint, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2004, 48. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

Flexner, James Thomas, and Barbara Gallati. Asher B. Durand: An Engraver’s and a Farmer’s Art. Exhibition catalog. Yonkers, NY: The Hudson River Museum, 1983. Imprint, vol. 9, no. 2, Autumn 1984, 29. Reviewed by Rona Schneider.

Flint, Janet Altic, and Joseph Goddu. Creation and Craft: Three Centuries of American Prints. Commercial exhibition catalog. New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1990. Imprint, vol. 15, no. 2, Autumn 1990, 35. Briefly Noted by Rona Schneider.

Forbes, David W. Engraved at Lahainaluna: A History of Printmaking by Hawaiians at the Lahainaluna Seminary, 1834–1844, with a Descriptive Catalogue of All Known Views, Maps, and Portraits. Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, distributed by Mission House Museum, 2012. Imprint, vol. 40, no. 2, Autumn 2015, 48–49. Reviewed by Lauren B. Hewes.

Fowble, E. McSherry. Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680–1880: A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1987. Imprint, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 1989, 35–36. Reviewed by Wendy Shadwell.

Frank, Stuart M. Herman Melville’s Picture Gallery: Sources and Types of the “Pictorial Chapters” of MOBY DICK. Fairhaven, MA: Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc., 1986. Imprint, vol. 16, no. 2, Autumn 1991, 32. Briefly Noted by Rona Schneider.

Franklin, Linda Campbell. Antiques and Collectibles:
A Bibliography of Works in English, 16th Century to 1976. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978. Imprint, vol. 4, no. 1, April 1979, 10. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

Fredericks, Stephen A. The New York Etching Club Minutes: November 12, 1877, through December 8, 1893. Houston: Rice University Press, 2009. Imprint, vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2010, 34–35. Reviewed by Sally Pierce.

Fries, Waldemar H. The Double Elephant Folio: The Story of Audubon’s Birds in America. Chicago: American Library Association, 1973. Imprint, vol. 1, no. 1, Feb. 1976, 4–5. Reviewed by Ruth Alden Graham and Frances M. Sheppard.

Friese, Nancy. Prints of Nature: Poetic Etchings of Mary Nimmo Moran. Exhibition catalog. Tulsa, OK: Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, 1984. Imprint, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1986, 28. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

Futures Publications. Working Papers 1: Studies in Design & Technology. London: Futures Publications, 1988. Imprint, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 1989, 37. Briefly Noted by Thomas Beckman.

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Gage, Thomas Hovey. An Artists Index to Stauffer’s “American Engravers.” Photo reprint of original first edition. Mamaroneck, NY: Sam Seiffer, 1995. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1995, 40. Reviewed by Rona Schneider.

Gale Research Company. Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné. Compiled and published by Gale Research Company, with an introduction by Bernard F. Reilly Jr. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1984, two volumes. Imprint, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1986, 29. Reviewed by Steven Miller. Also reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 39.

Gillion, Edmund V., Jr. Early Illustrations and Views of American Architecture. New York: Dover, 1971. Imprint, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1980, 29. Reviewed by Maybelle Mann.

Goddu, Joseph. Artist’s Proofs for “The Birds of America”: An Exhibition in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Hirschl & Adler Galleries. New York: Hirschl & Adler, 2002. Imprint, vol. 27, no. 2, Autumn 2002, 45. Reviewed by Robert Braun.

Grafton, John. New York in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Dover Publications, 1977. Imprint, vol. 5, no. 2, Autumn 1980, 34–35. Reviewed by Gloria-Gilda Deák.

Graham, Stanley. Old New York. Scenes Remembered. Poughkeepsie, NY: Century Publishing Company, 1979. Imprint, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1980, 29. Reviewed by Gloria-Gilda Deák.

Gravell, Thomas L., and George Miller, revised with the assistance of Elizabeth A. Welsh. American Watermarks, 1690–1835. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. Imprint, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 2002, 42–43. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Grim, Ronald E., Roni Pick, and Eileen Warburton, editors. Boston & Beyond: A Bird’s Eye View of New England. Exhibition catalog. Boston: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2008. Imprint, vol. 34, no. 2, Autumn 2009, 42–43. Reviewed by Sally Pierce.

———, and Debra Block. Torn in Two: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War. Exhibition catalog. Boston: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2011. Imprint, vol. 36, no. 2, Autumn 2011, 45–46. Reviewed by Sally Pierce.

Gross, Sally Lorensen. Toward an Urban View: The Nineteenth-Century American City in Prints. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1989. Imprint, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn 1989, 32. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Gustke, Nancy L. The Special Artist in American Culture: A Biography of Frank Hamilton Taylor (1846–1927). American University Studies, Series XX, Fine Arts, Vol. 21. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. Imprint, vol. 22, no. 2, Autumn 1997, 29. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

Gutjahr, Paul C. An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777–1880. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Imprint, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2001, 36. Reviewed by Sue Rainey.

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Hall, Elton W., ed. American Maritime Prints: The Proceedings of the Eight Annual North American Print Conference Held at the Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, May 6–7, 1977. With a forward by Richard C. Kugler. New Bedford, MA: The Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1985. Imprint, vol. 11, no. 2, Autumn 1986, 29. Reviewed by Salvatore Cilella.

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Harter, Jim. Women: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources. New York: Dover, 1978. Imprint, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1980, 29. Reviewed by Maybelle Mann.

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Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979. Imprint, vol. 6, no. 2, Autumn 1981, 26–27. Reviewed by Richard O. Hathaway.

Hessler, Gene. The Comprehensive Catalog of U. S. Paper Money. Chicago: Henry Regenery Company, 1977. Imprint, vol. 5, no. 2, Autumn 1980, 36. Reviewed by Maybelle Mann.

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Kahn, Michael Alexander, and Richard Samuel West. What Fools These Mortals Be! The Story of “Puck,” America’s First and Most Influential Magazine of Color Political Cartoons. San Diego, CA: IDW Publishing, 2014. Imprint, vol. 40, no. 2, Autumn 2015, 50–52. Reviewed by Alexis L. Boylan.

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Manthorne, Katherine. Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. Imprint, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring 2021, 40-42. Reviewed by Helena Wright.

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———. The Democratic Art: Pictures for a 19th-Century America, Chromolithography 1840–1900. Boston: David R. Godine, publisher, in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX, 1979. Imprint, vol. 5, no. 2, Autumn 1980, 35–36. Reviewed by Ewell L. Newman.

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National Museum of History and Technology. An Engraver’s Potpourri: Life and Times of a Nineteenth-Century Bank Note Engraver. Catalog of an exhibition on the life and work of Stephen Schoff (1818–1905). Washington, DC: Hall of Printing and Graphic Arts, National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1979. Imprint, vol. 7, no. 2, Autumn 1982, 34–35. Reviewed by Robin May.

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———, with Harold Holzer and Gabor S. Boritt. The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Imprint, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 1989, 33–34. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

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———. The Engraving Trade in Early Cincinnati: With a Brief Account of the Beginnings of the Lithographic Trade. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. Imprint, vol. 38, no. 2, Autumn 2013, 51–52. Reviewed by James Schiele.

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Patterson, Cynthia Lee. Art for the Middle Classes: America’s Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. Imprint, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring 2011, 35–37. Reviewed by Nancy Finlay.

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———, compiler. Railroad, Indian, and Pioneer Prints by Currier and Ives. New York: Antique Bulletin Publishing Company, 1930, limited edition of 500 copies plus library edition. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 39.

———, compiler. Sporting Prints by Currier and Ives. New York: Antique Bulletin Publishing Company, 1930, limited edition of 750 copies. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 39.

Peters, Harry T. Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People. Volume 1, Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1929, limited edition of 501 copies, reprint by Arno Press, 1976; Volume 2, Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran and Co., 1931, limited edition of 501 copies, reprint by Arno Press, 1976; Condensed popular edition, Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 37.

Peterson, Roger Tory, and Virginia Marie Peterson. Audubon’s Birds of America. New York: Abbeville Press, 1981. Imprint, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 1982, 45–46. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

Philippe, Robert. Political Graphics: Art as a Weapon. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980. Imprint, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1986, 29. Reviewed by Salvatore Cilella.

Pierce, Sally, and Catharina Slautterback. Boston Lithography, 1825 to 1880: The Boston Athenaeum Collection. Boston: The Boston Athenaeum, 1991. Imprint, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 1992, 38–39. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———, with Catharina Slautterback and Georgia Brady Barnhill. Early American Lithography: Images to 1830. Boston:
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Piola, Erika, ed. Philadelphia on Stone: Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia, 1828–1878. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press in association with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 2012. Imprint, vol. 38, no. 1, Spring 2013, 45–47. Reviewed by Jim Burant.

Poesch, Jessie J., editor. Printmaking in New Orleans. Papers presented at the 1987 North American Print Conference. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 2006. Imprint, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2007, 38–39. Reviewed by Bill North.

Pomeroy, Jane R. Alexander Anderson’s New York City Diary: 1793 to 1799. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Smithsonian; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; and Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2014. Imprint, vol. 41, no. 1, Spring 2016, 41–44. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

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———, and Virginia Lascara Sites. William Byrd III and His Lost History: Engravings of the Americas. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1993. Distributed by University Press of Virginia. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn 1994, 43. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

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Raguin, Virginia Chieffo, and Mary Ann Powers, curators, with the assistance of Leslie Bussis Tait, Georgia B. Barnhill, and Brian C. R. Zugay. Sacred Spaces: Building and Remembering Sites of Worship in the Nineteenth Century. Exhibition catalog. Worcester, MA: Organized by the College of the Holy Cross and the American Antiquarian Society, 2002. Imprint, vol. 28, no. 2, Autumn 2003, 41–42. Reviewed by Richard Hathaway.

Rainey, Sue. Creating a World on Paper: Harry Fenn’s Career in Art. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. Imprint, vol. 39, no. 1, Spring 2014, 34–35. Reviewed by Nancy Finlay.

———. Creating Picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape. Nashville and London: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 2, Autumn 1995, 29–30. Reviewed by E. Richard McKinstry.

———, and Roger B. Stein. Shaping the Landscape Image, 1865–1910: John Douglas Woodward. Charlottesville: Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, 1997. Imprint, vol. 22, no. 2, Autumn 1997, 31–32. Reviewed by Richard O. Hathaway.

Rawls, Walton. Currier & Ives’ America: From a Young Nation to a Great Power. New York: Abbeville Press, 2016. This is a new edition of Rawls’ The Great Book of Currier & Ives’ America. Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 34-35. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak and also included in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have” (p. 42) in the same issue.

———. The Great Book of Currier & Ives’ America. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Imprint, vol. 7, no. 2, Autumn 1982, 33–34. Reviewed by Ewell L. Newman. Also reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 42.

Reaves, Wendy Wick, ed. American Portrait Prints: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual American Print Conference. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1984. Imprint, vol. 9, no. 2, Autumn 1984, 28. Reviewed by William Diebold.

Reese, William S. Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books. Exhibition catalog. New York: The Grolier Club, 1999. Imprint, vol. 24, no. 2, Autumn 1999, 38. Reviewed by Georgia B. Barnhill.

Reilly, Bernard F. Jr. American Political Prints, 1766–1876: A Catalog of the Collections in the Library of Congress. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1991. Imprint, vol. 16, no. 2, Autumn 1991, 30. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

Reps, John W. Bird’s Eye Views: Historic Lithographs of North American Cities. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. Imprint, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring 1999, 37. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———. Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979. Imprint, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 1987, 28–29. Reviewed by Gloria-Gilda Deák.

———. Cities of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century Images of Urban Development. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1994. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 2, Autumn 1995, 30–31. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———. Cities on Stone: Nineteenth-Century Lithograph Images of the Urban West. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1976. Imprint, vol. 2, no. 2, 1977, 10. Reviewed by Marshall R. Berkoff.

———. John Caspar Wild: Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-Century Urban America. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, distributed by University of Missouri Press, 2006. Imprint, vol. 32, no. 2, Autumn 2007, 44–45. Reviewed by Lauren B. Hewes.

———. St. Louis Illustrated: Nineteenth-Century Engravings and Lithographs of a Mississippi River Metropolis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989. Imprint, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn 1989, 31. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada; Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825–1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984. Imprint, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 1987, 28-29. Reviewed by Gloria-Gilda Deák.

———. Washington on View: The Nation’s Capital Since 1790. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Imprint, vol. 17, no. 2, Autumn 1992, 38–39. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Rhodes, Barbara, and William Wells Streeter. Before Photocopying: The Art and History of Mechanical Copying, 1780–1938. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press and Heraldry Bindery, 1999. Imprint, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 2002, 42–43. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Rickards, Maurice. Collecting Printed Ephemera. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. Imprint, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn 1989, 32. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———, completed and edited by Michael Twyman. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian. London and New York: The British Library and Routledge, 2000. Imprint, vol. 26, no. 2, Autumn 2001, 35. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Riggs, Timothy A. Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1983. Imprint, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 1985, 28. Reviewed by Rona Schneider.

Ritzlin, George. World Dictionary of Dealers in Antiquarian Maps. Chicago: Chicago Map Society, 1977. Imprint, vol. 4, no. 2, Autumn 1979, 31. Reviewed by Donald C. O’Brien.

Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, New York. United States 19th-Century Clipper Ship Cards, at public auction, 13 June 1990. Imprint, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 1991, 32. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Rosen, Randy. Prints: The Facts and Fun of Collecting. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978. Imprint, vol. 4, no. 1, April 1979, 12. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

Roylance, Dale. American Graphic Arts: A Chronology to 1900 in Books, Prints and Drawings. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1990. Imprint, vol. 15, no. 2, Autumn 1990, 36. Briefly Noted by Thomas Beckman.

———. Graphic Americana: The Art and Technique of Printed Ephemera from Abecedaires to Zoetropes. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1992. Imprint, vol. 17, no. 2, Autumn 1992, 40. Briefly Noted by Thomas Beckman.

———, and Nancy Finlay. Pride of Place: Early American Views from the Collection of Leonard L. Milberg ’53. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1983. Imprint, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 1984, 27–28. Reviewed by Gloria-Gilda Déak.

Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. Fanny Palmer: The Life and Work of a Currier & Ives Artist. Edited by Diann Benti. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018. Imprint, vol. 43, no. 2, Autumn 2018, 51–52. Reviewed by Kate Meyer.

Ruge, Valice F., editor. Life Along the Hudson: Wood Engravings of Hudson River Subjects from “Harper’s Weekly,” 1859–1903. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1994. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 2, Autumn 1995, 30. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Ruud, Brandon K., editor. Karl Bodmer’s North American Prints. With essays by Ron Tyler and Brandon K. Rudd, annotations by Marsha Gallagher, and forward by J. Brooks Joyner. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press for Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2004. Imprint, vol. 29, no. 2, Autumn 2004, 37–38. Reviewed by Helena E. Wright.

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Sander, David M. Wood Engraving: An Adventure in Printmaking. New York: Viking Press, 1978. Imprint, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1980, 31. Reviewed by Georgia B. Bumgardner.

Sandweiss, Martha A., with Rick Stewart, and Ben W. Huseman. Eyewitness to War, 1846–1848. Exhibition catalog. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1989. Imprint, vol. 15,
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Sauer, Gordon C. John Gould, the Bird Man: A Chronology and Bibliography. Victoria, Australia: Craftsman Press, 1982. Exclusive distribution in the US and Canada by University Press of Kansas. Imprint, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 1984, 28. Reviewed by Karen Andresen.

Schantz, Michael W. James D. Smillie: American Printmaker, 1833–1909. Exhibition catalog. Philadelphia: The Woodmere Art Museum, 1991. Imprint, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 1993, 33. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

Schieber, Ron. Currier & Ives Trade Card Checklist. Revised edition. Akron, Ohio: published by the author, 1995. Imprint, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring 1996, 30. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Schneider, Rona. America Painter Etchings: 1853–1908. Exhibition catalog. New York: The Grolier Club, 1989. Imprint, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 1991, 31. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

———. The Quiet Interlude: American Etchings of the Late Nineteenth Century. Prints from the Collection of Rona Schneider. Exhibition catalog. Amherst, MA: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 1984. Imprint, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn 1985, 29. Reviewed by Matthew Marks.

———. Stephen Parrish: Rediscovered American Etcher. Exhibition catalog. Philadelphia: Woodmere Art Museum, 1999. Imprint, vol. 24, no. 2, Autumn 1999, 39. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———. Stephen Parrish: The Etchings. A Catalogue Raisonné. With a forward by William H. Gerdts. New York: The Old Print Shop, 2007. Imprint, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 2008, 37–38. Reviewed by Cindy Medley Buckner.

Schurre, Jacques. Currier & Ives Prints: A Checklist of Unrecorded Prints (Revised and Updated) With Valuations and Illustrations Including a Supplement Featuring Material Containing Some New Sidelights to the Currier & Ives Story. New York: privately printed and sold by Jacques Schurre, 280 9th Ave., New York, NY, 10001, 1984. Imprint, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 1988, 28-29. Briefly noted by Rona Schneider.

Schweizer, Paul D. The Art of Trenton Falls, 1825–1900. Exhibition organized by Paul D. Schweizer, with essays by David Tatham and Carol Gordon Wood, and an annotated catalog compiled by Paul D. Schweizer. Utica, NY: Museum of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, 1989. Imprint, vol. 15, no. 2, Autumn 1990, 32–33. Reviewed by Eugene C. Worman Jr.

Shapiro, Cecile, and Lauris Mason. Fine Prints: Collecting, Buying, and Selling. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Imprint, vol. 3, no. 1, 1978, p. 5. Reviewed by Val Ruge. See also, Imprint, vol. 4, no. 1, April 1979, 10–12. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

Shaw, Renata. Graphic Sampler. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1979. Imprint, vol. 8, no. 2, Autumn 1983, 27. Reviewed by Salvatore G. Cilella.

Siegel, Nancy. Along the Juniata: Thomas Cole and the Dissemination of American Landscape Imagery. Exhibition catalog. Huntington, PA, and Seattle, WA: Juniata College Museum of Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2003. Imprint, vol. 29, no. 2, Autumn 2004, 38–39. Reviewed by Nancy Finlay.

Simkin, Colin, editor. Currier & Ives’ America: A Panorama of the Mid-Nineteenth Century Scene. New York: Crown Publishers, 1952. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books That Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 44.

———, editor. A Currier & Ives Treasury. New York: Crown Publishers, 1955. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books That Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 44.

Skelton, R. A. Edited by David Woodward. Maps: A Historical Survey of Their Study and Collecting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Imprint, vol. 1, no. 2, Oct. 1976, 4 and 10. Reviewed by Ewell L. Newman.

Slautterback, Catherina. Chromo-Mania! The Art of Chromolithography in Boston, 1840–1910. Boston: The Boston Athenaeum, 2012. Imprint, vol. 38, no. 2, Autumn 2013, 49–50. Reviewed by Michael J. McCue.

Sloan, Kim, editor. European Visions: American Voices. British Museum Research Publication Number 172. London: The British Museum, 2009. Imprint, vol. 35, no. 2, Autumn 2010, 44–45. Reviewed by Sally Pierce.

———, with Joyce E. Chaplin, Christian F. Feest, and Ute Kulemann. A New World: England’s First View of America. Exhibition catalog. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Imprint, vol. 32, no. 2, Autumn 2007, 45–46. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

Slobody, Evelyn and Lawrence, and Philip Pines, eds., with a forward by Stanley F. Bergstein. Currier & Ives Present Trotting, the National Pastime of Early America, A Pageant of Their Horse Prints from 1840–1895. Peekskill, NY: Benson Press, 1984. Imprint, vol. 11, no. 2, Autumn 1986, 29. Reviewed by Salvatore Cilella. Also reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books That Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 43.

Smith, Steven E. American Book and Magazine Illustrators to 1920. With Catherine A. Hastedt, and Donald H. Dyal, eds. Detroit, Washington, DC, and London: Gale Research, 1998. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Imprint, vol. 23, no. 2, Autumn 1998, 39–40. Reviewed by Sally Pierce.

Snyder, Martin P. City of Independence: Views of Philadelphia Before 1800. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. Imprint, vol. 2, no. 1, April 1977, 5–6. Reviewed by Henry A. Boorse.

Snyder-Grenier, Ellen M. Brooklyn! An Illustrated History for the Brooklyn Historical Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. Imprint, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 1997, 28. Reviewed by Martin L. Schneider.

Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. Fanny Palmer: A Long Island Woman Who Portrayed America. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1997. Imprint, vol. 22, no. 2, Autumn 1997, 26. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Spangenberg, Kristin L., and Deborah W. Walk, editors. The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company. Exhibition catalog. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 2010. Imprint, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 2012, 42–43. Reviewed by Georgia B. Barnhill.

Staff, Frank. The Valentine and Its Origins. New York and Washington: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. Imprint, vol. 4, no. 2, Autumn 1979, 31–32. Reviewed by Elizabeth Baird.

Stanchak, John E. Leslie’s Illustrated Civil War. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1992. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1994, 39–40. Briefly noted by Thomas Beckman.

Stauffer, David McNeely. American Engravers upon Copper and Steel. Vol. 1. Mamaroneck, NY: Sam Seiffer, 1990. Photo reprint of original first edition. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1995, 40. Reviewed by Rona Schneider.

———, Mantle Fielding, and Thomas H. Gage. American Engravers upon Copper and Steel. 3 vols. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1994. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1995, 39–40. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

Steiner, Bill. Audubon Art Prints: A Collector’s Guide to Every Edition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Imprint, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2004, 48. Briefly Noted by Thomas P. Bruhn.

Symmes, Marilyn. Impressions of New York: Prints from the New-York Historical Society. Exhibition catalog. New York: Princeton University Architectural Press, 2004. Imprint, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring 2005, 39–40. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

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Tatham, David. John Henry Bufford: American Lithographer. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976. Imprint, vol. 2, no. 1, April 1977, 6. Reviewed by Ewell L. Newman.

———. Winslow Homer and the Illustrated Book. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992. Imprint, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 1993, 35–36. Reviewed by Gloria Deák.

———. Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Imprint, vol. 28, no. 2, Autumn 2003, 43–44. Reviewed by Roger A. Stein.

The Old Print Shop. Best Fifty Currier & Ives Lithographs, Large Folio Size. New York: The Old Print Shop, 1933. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 40–41.

———. Best Fifty Currier & Ives Lithographs, Small Folio Size. New York: The Old Print Shop, 1934. Reviewed by James Brust and John Zak in their article, “An Essential Currier & Ives Library: Books that Every C&I Collector Should Have,” Imprint, vol. 41, no. 2, Autumn 2016, 37.

Theran, Susan, ed. Prints, Posters & Photographs: Identification and Price Guide. From “The Confident Collector” series. New York: Avon Books, 1993. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1994, 39. Briefly Noted by Thomas Beckman.

———, and Kathryn Acerbo, eds. Leonard’s Annual Price Index of Prints, Posters and Photographs. Newton, MA: Auction Index, Inc., 1992. Imprint, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 1993, 34. Reviewed by Rona Schneider.

Thompson, Barbara. Over There—Over Here: American Print Makers Go to War, 1914–1918. Wichita, KS: Wichita Art Museum, 2018. Imprint, vol. 43, no. 2, Autumn 2018, 54–56. Reviewed by Rosemarie Tovell.

Tomasko, Mark D. The Feel of Steel: The Art and History of Bank-Note Engraving in the United States. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2012. Imprint, vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 2015, 41–43. Reviewed by Tom Serfass.

Tovell, Rosemarie L. A New Class of Art: The Artist’s Print in Canadian Art, 1877–1920. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1996. Imprint, vol. 21, no. 2, Autumn 1996, 36. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman. A more extensive review by Thomas P. Bruhn appeared in Imprint, vol. 22, no. 2, Autumn 1997, 26–27.

———. The Stone Age: Canadian Lithography from Its Beginnings. Exhibition catalog. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2000. Imprint, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2001, 36. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

Trumpy, Sigrid, and Sari Hornstein. Naval Prints from the Beverly R. Robinson Collection. Volume I: 1514–1791. Annapolis: United States Naval Academy Museum, 1991. Imprint, vol. 17, no. 2, Autumn 1992, 40. Briefly Noted by Thomas Beckman.

Twyman, Michael. A History of Chromolithography: Printed Colour for All. London: The British Library, and New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2013. Imprint, vol. 39, no. 2, Autumn 2014, 41–43. Reviewed by Thomas P. Bruhn.

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Tyler, Ron. Audubon’s Great National Work: The Royal Octavo Edition of “The Birds of America.” Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. Imprint, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1994, 38–39. Reviewed by Robert Braun.

———, editor. Prints and Printmakers of Texas. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual North American Print Conference. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1997. Imprint, vol. 22, no. 2, Autumn 1997, 27–28. Reviewed by Donald H. Cresswell.

———, editor. Prints of the American West: Papers Presented at the Ninth Annual North American Print Conference. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1983. Imprint, vol. 9, no. 2, Autumn 1984, 27–28. Reviewed by Ewell L. Newman.

———. Prints of the West. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1994. Imprint, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1995, 36–37. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

———. Western Art, Western History: Collected Essays. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. Imprint, vol. 45, no. 1, Spring 2020, 23-24. Reviewed by Mark Thistlethwaite.

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United States Commission on Art. United States Senate Graphic Arts Collection Illustrated Checklist, Volume 1. Washington, DC: United States Senate Commission on Art, 1995. Imprint, vol. 22, no. 2, Autumn 1997, 30–31. Reviewed by Thomas Beckman.

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Vittoria, Shannon. “Nature and Nostalgia in the Art of Mary Nimo Moran (1842–1899).” PhD dissertation, Graduate Faculty
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Winterthur Museum Publications. A selection of recommended publications. Imprint, vol. 3, no. 2, 1978, 10. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

———. Winterthur Portfolio, vols. 1–12. List of articles recommended by E. McSherry Fowble as having special interest for AHPCS members. Imprint, vol. 3, no. 2, 1978, 12. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

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———. R. Swain Gifford, A Catalogue of Etchings,
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Zigrosser, Carl, and Christa Gaehde. Guide to the Collecting and Care of Original Prints. New York: Crown Publishers, 1965. Imprint, vol. 4, no. 1, April 1979, 10. Reviewed by Lauris Mason.

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