Printmaking history, early book presses, early Venetian printing
Art history resources on the web:
prints and photographs, by Christopher Witcombe.
Boston Public Library Print Department
British Museum prints and drawings collection.
Victoria & Albert Museum National Art Library
and curatorial department for the art, craft and design of the book.
Conservation Online
Resources for conservation professionals, from Stanford University.
Book Lovers
Fine books and literature.
Book arts, antiquarian books, rare books, book history.
Colour Printing Techniques in the Nineteenth Century
University of Delaware
History of the Printing Press
Virtual Museum of the Printing Press, Portugal. Typography, lithography. photogravure, the history of newspapers.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. print collection.
European Rotogravure Association
PLGA Global (Packaging & Label Gravure Association)
Gravure Association of America
Printing History. The Melbert B. Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. A graphic arts library and digital image database.
Techniques
Spencer Museum of Art Print Room
Historic Printing
Printing Techniques of the Past, a directory of websites from PSPrint. Articles on intaglio, woodblock printing, lithography, acquatint and other techniques.
Venetian printing
The Venetian printing press, an historical study.
Early Venetian printing illustrated: Ongania, Ferdinando, 1842.
California Digital Library
The Art of Venetian Printing. Rob Oakes. Oak-Tree Blog.
Incunable Venetian printing of Dante’s Divine Comedy
The Rare Book Room
The Venetian printing press (Open Library)
Goya, Francisco
Goya prints in The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University Collection.
Hollar, Wenceslaus
Wenceslaus Hollar. Art museums displaying works by Hollar.
Wenceslaus Hollar. Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Wenceslaus Hollar. Wikipedia entry.
Colonna, Francesco
Hypnerotomachia, Project Gutenberg
The Strife of Love in a Dreame In PDF or DJVU, and beta flip-book formats
Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed by Aldus Manutius