Note: The Encyclopedia is in the middle of a major renovation, with the page designs being completely renewed and updated. So you will encounter a mix of old and new as you browse through, which may be quite confusing. Hopefully, it won't take too long to finish the job ...

Over the years, there have been a number of books written about the art and craft of woodblock printmaking, but as they have hardly fallen into the category of 'best-sellers', they soon went out of print, and are now exceedingly difficult to find. It is sometimes possible to turn up one of these volumes through an Internet search, but even when one is located, it is inevitably priced as a 'collector's item', and the contents thus remain inaccessible to the typical woodblock printmaker.

I have managed to accumulate a small library of these rare volumes, and am one-by-one scanning them in, and uploading them to this web site. Except as otherwise noted, all of these on-line editions contain the complete original text and all illustrations.

Here is the list of volumes currently available. Others will be added as they become known to me (and as copyrights expire, making their addition permissible).

Some of these books are also available as complete downloadable pdf files. See the Mokuhankan website.

Woodcut Printmaking (on the plank ...)

	Japanese Wood-cutting and Wood-cut Printing - T. Tokuno, Smithsonian Institution 1894
	Chats on Japanese Prints (in preparation ... partial text) - A. Davison Ficke, London 1915
	Woodblock Printing - by the Japanese Method (eBook available) - F. Morley Fletcher, London 1916
	Tools and Materials Illustrating the Japanese Method of Colour-Printing - Edward F. Strange, London 1924
	Colour Printing with Linoleum and Wood Blocks - A. W. Seaby, Leicester 1925
	Colour Block Prints - Hesketh Hubbard, London 1934
	Japanese Wood-Block Printing (eBook available) - Hiroshi Yoshida, Tokyo 1939
	Hiroshi Yoshida: Print-Maker - Ben Bruce Blakeney, Tokyo 1950
	The Making of Japanese Prints (excerpts) - Chie Hirano, Boston 1939
	The Relief Print (excerpts) - Watson & Kent, New York 1945
	Woodcuts and Wood Engravings, How I Make Them - H. A. Mueller, New York 1945
	Colour Woodcuts (eBook available) - John Platt, London 1948

Wood Engraving (on the end grain ...)

	Wood Engraving - R.J. Beedham, London 1921
	Woodcuts and Some Words (excerpts) - E.G. Craig, London 1923
	A Woodcut Manual - J.J. Lankes, New York 1932
	The Relief Print (excerpts) - Watson & Kent, New York 1945
	Woodcuts and Wood Engravings, How I Make Them - H. A. Mueller, New York 1945

In the collection, and proposed for inclusion:

Treatise on Wood-Engraving (excerpts)

- Jackson & Chatto, London 1839

How to Make Japanese Color Prints

- Yoshikawa, Yokohama, 1935

Japanese Wood Engravings (excerpts)

- W. Andersen, London 1895

Colour Printing and Colour Prints (excerpts)

- R.M.Burch, 1910

Colour Block Print Making

- Hesketh Hubbard, Boston 1927

The Modern Woodcut

- H. Furst, London 1924

The Woodcut: An Annual (4 volumes)

- H. Furst, London 1927~

Nishiki-e no Hori to Suri (The carving and printing of nishiki-e)

- Tokyo 1929

Block-Cutting and Print-Making by Hand

- M. Dobson, London 1930

Print: A Quarterly Journal (extracts)

- Ed. Wm. Rudge, New Haven 1940~41

A History of Wood Engraving (excerpts)

- Douglas Percy Bliss, London 1928

Wood Engraving and Woodcuts

- Clare Leighton, London 1932

Masters of the Color-print (series)

- M.C. Salaman, London (various years)

The Modern Color-print

- M. Salaman, London

The Baren (in translation from the Japanese)

-Tokyo, 1973

In the collection, but copyright issues make their inclusion on the website impractical ...

The Technique of the Color Wood-cut

- Walter J. Phillips, New York 1926

How Prints Look

- Wm. Ivins, Boston 1943

A Student's Guide to Wood Engraving

- W. Gregson, London 1953

John Baptist Jackson: 18th Century Master of the Color Woodcut

- Jacob Kainen, Washington 1962

The Craft of Woodcuts

- John R. Biggs, 1963

Printmaking

- H. Frankenfield, 1964

Japanese Print-Making

- T. Yoshida and R. Yuki, Tokyo 1966

Introducing Woodcuts

- G. Woods, London 1968

Woodblock Printing

- T. Tokuriki, Tokyo 1968

The Woodblock Engravers

- Kenneth Lindley, Newton Abbot, 1970

Woodblock Print Primer

- T. Tokuriki, Tokyo 1970

History of Wood Engraving

- A. Garrett, London 1978

Woodcut Printmaking

- W. Chamberlain, London 1978

Wood Engraving, an Adventure in Printmaking

- David M. Sander, New York 1978

Woodcut

- David L. Oravez, New York 1992

The final list is of volumes that have yet to be located for the collection (in an affordable copy):

Woodcuts, the practice of Engraving and Cutting upon Wood

- Douglas Percy Bliss

Practical Hints on Decorative Printing

- W. Savage 1819~22

A Few Hints on Colour and Printing in Colour

- F.B. Watt 1872

The Principles and Practice of Colour Printing

- F. Noble 1881

Wood Engraving, a Manual of Instruction

- W.J. Linton, London 1884

English Wood Engraving, 1900-1950

- T. Balston, London 1951

The Way of Wood Engraving

- Dorothea Braby, The Studio, London 1953

Artistic Japan (excerpts)

- Siegfried Bing, 1888

Relief Printmaking

- Gerald F. Brommer, Worcester 1970

Block Prints, How to Make Them

- W. S. Rice, Milwaukee 1941

Student's Book of Wood Engraving

- Iain Macnab, New York 1938

An Introduction to a History of the Woodcut

- A.M. Hind, Dover, New York, 1963

Linoleum Block Printing

- Francis J. Kafka, Dover, New York, 1972

Your Wood-Engraving

- Mark F. Severin, London 1953

Wood-Engraving

- George E. Mackley, London 1948

Wood Engraving

- I. Macnab, Pitman, London, 1947

Linoleum Block Printing

- Ernest W. Watson, Springfield 1929

Woodcut Printing in Water-colors

- The Studio, London 1894

The Original Color-print Magazine

- W. Giles, London 1924, 1925, 1926

An Essay on the Invention of Engraving and Printing in Chiaro Oscuro

- Mr. Jackson, Battersea 1754

Linocuts and Woodcuts: A Complete Block Printing Handbook

- Michael Rothenstein, New York, 1964

 Colour Prints from Wood-blocks

- W.J. Phillips, 1926 (A different book from his 'Technique'?)

Complete Manual of Relief Printmaking, A Practical Guide to the Tools and Techniques of Lino Cutting, Wood Cutting, and Wood Engraving

- Katie Clemson and Rosemary Simmons, 1988

Printmaking Step By Step

- Rosemary Simmons

Relief Printing

- Michael Rothenstein, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1970

If anyone has any information on one of these latter books, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it ...