Geschichte des Kupferstichs
A German art-history survey of engraving, Geschichte des Kupferstichs, written by Hans Wolfgang Singer and published in Magdeburg and Leipzig by Niemann in 1895 for students and collectors of prints. Its pages reproduce plates by Dürer, Mantegna-school engravers and anonymous woodcut makers, with captions naming each artist and date. A designer could take from them the compact, dense black-and-white tonal work of early engraving, where hatching alone builds rock, cloth and light, and the circular medallion grid of a religious sheet as a layout idea.
