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From works of art and missals to wallpaper, German printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were colorfully creative marvels. Their work is explored in detail for the first time in Early Colour Printing. . . . It is as much about book history and bibliography as it is about art history, so offers a new context for understanding color-printed book illustrations and title pages in readers' collections. * Fine Books & Collections * This beautifully accessible, exhibition-style catalogue marks Elizabeth Savage's latest installment in her reinvention of early modern color printing history. Gorgeously produced and illustrated in full-page color with numerous detailed views, it persuasively argues for a more inclusive narrative of pre-1600 Germanic color woodcuts. * Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture * With its contextualizing approach, this lucid study provides a detailed understanding of . . .sixteenth-century colour woodcut printing. * Burlington Magazine * Early Colour Printing analyzes at considerable depth the technical aspects of this important group of early woodcuts and justly stresses the fundamental contribution of their highly-skilled block cutters. * Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance *

While Savage’s book is both comprehensive and scholarly, its clear prose also speaks to a general public, and includes her initial careful definitions of the components of her analysis, especially prints, artist-designers, and cutters (Formschneider). In short, her book is rigorous yet accessible, focused on objects but with a sense of the overall contexts and developments. And its range of objects and images goes well beyond the usual focus, including this review, on better-known names especially from the crucial first decades. This study readily serves as both a reference work and a survey introduction for German colored woodcut prints of the long sixteenth century. * Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews 08/09/2022 * … even those who are not early modern or print specialists will find it valuable, as the combination of interesting subject material and engaging images make it a wonderful resource for anyone with an interest in art. * The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 01/12/2022 * With eighty-two entries richly illustrated in brilliant color and carefully described, Savage’s guide to early modern German color prints held at the British Museum is a resource to which scholars and nonspecialists alike will repeatedly return for its high-quality reproductions, clarity of text, and expert insights. * Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 01/12/2022 *

From works of art and missals to wallpaper, German printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were colorfully creative marvels. Their work is explored in detail for the first time in Early Colour Printing. . . . It is as much about book history and bibliography as it is about art history, so offers a new context for understanding color-printed book illustrations and title pages in readers' collections. -- Fine Books & Collections

From works of art and missals to wallpaper, German printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were colorfully creative marvels. Their work is explored in detail for the first time in Early Colour Printing. . . . It is as much about book history and bibliography as it is about art history, so offers a new context for understanding color-printed book illustrations and title pages in readers' collections. * Fine Books & Collections *

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Elizabeth Savage is a senior lecturer in book history and communications at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.

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