William Ivins, probably more than anyone else, has been responsible for the twentieth-century reconsideration of the significance of the significance of graphic techniques. As the first Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art he prepared in 1929 a ground-breaking exhibition of prints, of which Notes on Prints is the book form. The work presented ranges in time and style from anonymous religious pieces, to Pollaiuolo and Mantegna, to the German school of the late fifteenth century. At the time of the exhibition, Ivins had written short but pointed introductory comments which accompanied the prints; with minor changes, they also appear here.