Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage -- Introduction: A Historical Overview of Printed Colour before 1700 / Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage -- Materials and Techniques for Early Colour Printing / Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage -- Colour Printing in Relief before c.1700: A Technical History / Elizabeth Savage -- Colour Printing in Intaglio before c.1700: A Technical History / Ad Stijnman -- Colour Stamping in the Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Technical Sources and Workshop Practice / Doris Oltrogge -- The Fust and Schöffer Office and the Printing of the Two-Colour Initials in the 1457 Mainz Psalter / Mayumi Ikeda -- Colour-Printed Pasteprints, 1460s–1480s / Andreas Uhr -- The Birgittines of The Netherlands: Experimental Printers and Colourists / Kathryn M. Rudy -- A Printer’s Art: The Development and Influence of Colour Printmaking in the German Lands, c.1476–c.1600 / Elizabeth Savage -- Hans Wechtlin and the Production of German Colour Woodcuts / Alice Klein -- Ugo da Carpi’s Diogenes / Naoko Takahatake -- The Chiaroscuro Woodcut Printmaking of Ugo da Carpi, Antonio da Trento and Niccolò Vicentino: Technique in Relation to Artistic Style / Linda Stiber Morenus -- A Technical Study of Sixteenth-Century Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts / Beth A. Price , Nancy Ash , Haddon A. Dine , Shelley R. Langdale , Ken Sutherland , Lucia Burgio and Jo-Fan Huang -- ‘Divine, August and Immortal’: The Potentials and Limitations of Colour Printing in the Low Countries, c.1555 / Edward H. Wouk -- Hendrick Goltzius’s Chiaroscuro Woodcuts Revisited / Marjolein Leesberg -- Dürer in Chiaroscuro: Early Modern Graphic Aesthetics and the Posthumous Production of Colour Prints / Anja Grebe -- The ‘Camaïeu’ Print in Seventeenth-Century Paris: On the Origins of Multi-tonal Printmaking in France / Alexander Dencher -- On Hercules Segers’s ‘Printed Paintings’ / Jun Nakamura -- Opus typo-chromaticum: The Colour Prints of Johannes Teyler / Simon Turner -- Colourful Topography: A Short-Lived Practice in Amsterdam Print Publishing around 1700 / Elmer Kolfin and Marrigje Rikken -- conclusion: Printing Colour After 1700: Jacob Christoff Le Blon and the Invention of Trichromatic Colour Printing, c.1710 / Ad Stijnman -- Appendix 1: Chronology: Developments in Colour Printing 1400-1700 / Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage -- Appendix 2: Glossary / Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage -- Bibliography / Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage -- Index of Names / Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage.

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In Printing Colour 1400–1700 , Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage offer the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking before 1700 (when most such histories begin), creating a new, interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art. It unveils a corpus of thousands of individual colour prints from across early modern Europe, proposing art historical, bibliographical, technical and scientific contexts for understanding them and their markets. The twenty-three contributions represent the state of research in this still-emerging field. From the first known attempts in the West until the invention of the approach we still use today (blue-red-yellow-black/‘key’, now CMYK), it demonstrates that colour prints were not rare outliers, but essential components of many early modern book, print and visual cultures.