The California Society of Printmakers (originally named the California Society of Etchers) was an idea hatched over dinner in December 1912 and formally announced in the San Francisco Chronicle on January 19, 1913. From its inception, the Society has welcomed printmakers from around the United States and abroad and accepted etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and monotypes. This book honors the California Society of Printmakers? centennial celebration with a series of essays designed to place the Society?s activities in historical and geographical context while also highlighting its current membership. Commentary by Karin Breuer of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts; five essays, more than 350 images, a glossary, a bibliography, and eight appendices are compiled in this authoritative, indexed, and full-color history. Essays include: A Print Dealer?s Journey With Northern California Prints, by Daniel Lienau of Annex Galleries; Moving Toward Multiplicity: Printmaking in Northern California?The 1940s to the Present, by artist/curator Art Hazelwood; Digging the Archives: The Documented History of CSP?s Origins, by art and retired art librarian Maryly Snow; The 85th Anniversary Revisited, by emerita art professor Sylvia Solochek Walters; Since the 85th: CSP 1997 to the Present, by printmaker and print publisher Sherry Smith Bell; Printmaking From Here to the Future, by David R. Jones, Director of Anchor Graphics.