Color Graphics: The Use of Photography to Produce Graphic Designs in Color

A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking, 1890-1960
By David Acton
This survey of colour printing by 100 inventive artists begins with works from the 1890s when American artists travelled to Europe to learn traditional printmaking techniques.
Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum
By Elizabeth Savage
Early Colour Printing captures this story in rich detail. It sets the stage for second wave of German color woodcut, which was triggered by the Expressionist revival at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Production of Nineteenth Century Colour Illustration
By Geoffrey Wakeman
Leaf book with specimens of color printing from the 19th century, extracted from published works and tipped-in. Each print is accompanied by an explanation of the print process and the work the print is taken from.