A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg around 1450 but also at its precursors.

Provides step-by-step instructions for using stamps to decorate clothing, party decorations, gifts, and much more, as well as for making one's own stamps.

Relates the full story of Japanese printmaking, both single-sheet prints and illustrated books and albums from the Edo through the Meiji and Taisho periods. Special features of the book include: the complex processes of printmaking; boxed features on surimono, sumo, and Ōsaka prints; and more than 200 color plates and black and white photographs.

Geronimo, Benjamin, Trap, Petunia, and Bugsy Wugsy, go back in time to Germany in the 1400s to stop the pirate cats from sabotaging the workshop of Gutenberg - the inventor of the printing press.