Christopher Baker, Caroline Elam, Geneieve Warwick

'... this little volume could hardly be bettered as an introduction to the complexities, as well as to the delights, of collecting master drawings and prints.' ArtNewsLetter '... this handsomely-produced volume... It is a credit to the contributors and their three editors that the essays in this volume enlighten not only on their own terms, but also as part of a larger narrative of the evolution of the collecting of prints and drawings in early modern Europe.' Elizabeth Goldring, Renaissance Journal 'The book contains outstanding contributions in a field that is still in its infancy... the essays provide an eminently readable introdution to the subject.' The Burlington Magazine

• Contents: Introduction, Genevieve Warwick; The archaeology of the print, Antony Griffiths; The print collection of Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539), David Landau; A Roman collector of the sixteenth century: Antonio Tronsarelli, Matteo Lafranconi; Giulio Mancini and the organisation of a print collection in early seventeenth-century Italy, Michael Bury; Nicholas Lanier (1558-1666) and the origins of drawing collecting in Stuart England, Jeremy Wood; Sir Peter Lely’s collection of prints and drawings, Diana Dethloff; Connoisseurship and the collection of drawings in Italy c.1700: the case of Padre Sebastiano Resta, Genevieve Warwick; 'A judiciously disposed collection': Jonathan Richardson Senior's cabinet of drawings, Carol Gibson-Wood; The drawings collection of Pierre Crozat, (1675-1740) Cordélia Hatton; The Italian Drawings Collection of Cavaliere Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri (1676-1742) Nicholas Turner; Bibliography; Index.