This is a lovely sumptuous book that presents the masterpiece prints by the world's great printmakers, along with biographies of the artists and critiques of their work and careers. The artists presented, chronologically, are Albrecht Durer, Pieter Brueghel, Jacques Callot, Rembrandt van Rijn, William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco Goya, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray, William Blake, Katsushika Hokusai, Toshusai Sharaku, Utagawa Hiroshige, Honore Daumier, James Whistler, Winslow Homer (my personal favorite of the lot), Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, Henri de Toulouse-Latrec, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall. I would have included Rockwell Kent, but the author, an artist and art collector and critic of some note, certainly makes a compelling case for every artist included here, some of whom were entirely unknown to me. The book also includes discussions of various printmaking techniques and history. ( )