If the few prints mentioned--a very few picked from a field immensely rich--should awaken in the reader a desire for further exploration in this world of prints, the purpose of these pages will have been achieved. THE END BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR STUDY OF PRINTS To those bent on further inquiry into the subject of prints, two books of prime importance can be most warmly recommended, namely:-- _Hind, Arthur M._ A Short History of Engraving and etching, with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1908. (An excellent, comprehensive book, with exhaustive lists and indexes, dealing with intaglio prints up to the present day.) _Kristeller, Paul._ Kupferstich und Holzschnitt in vier Jahrhunderten. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1905. (A masterly review of the whole field of prints, including woodcuts, but unfortunately exclusive of the nineteenth century. This also contains an extensive bibliography.) The careful perusal of either book will provide a good foundation, and the excellent lists of books at the end of each of them will safely guide the reader in his subsequent studies. The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS U.S.A * * * * * * Transcriber’s note: Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired. Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations.