American Prints in the Library of Congress: A Catalog of the Collection

Brand new still in shrink wrap Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.569. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins [For the Library of Congress], 1970. Profusely illustrated. This standard print reference catalogue was compiled by Karen F. Beall and the staff of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. It contains an introduction by Alan Fern and a foreword by Carl Zigrosser. It is an excellent catalogue of the Library's holdings. It lists approximately 1,250 artists with 12,000 entries for individual prints. There are brief but useful biographical notes. For each work of art is provided the following information: Title, Date, format, size, cross-reference to other catalogues, and limitation. Well over one thousand illustrations in the text. A standard work.