For students of the early history of prints, these are exciting times. Recent examinations feature print publishers, particularly in the Netherlands, and catalogues of additional individual printmakers. Jan van der Stock’s remarkable Printing Images in Antwerp: The Introduction of Printmaking in a City, Fifteenth Century to 1585 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Interactive, 1998) engages issues of both production and consumption and expands our concept of prints far beyond fine art. Yet surviving evidence has remained scarce about the earliest collections, especially large ones, despite foundational studies by Peter Parshall, William Robinson, and Michael Bury. With The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus (1488–1539): A Renaissance Collector in Seville, the greatest early print collection has been painstakingly reconstructed under the leadership of Mark McDonald of the British Museum, supported by the Getty Grant Program. The remarkable owner of these prints, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus, had accompanied his father on the final voyage to the New World (1502) and later became companion and adviser in Spain to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, as well as friend to both Desiderius Erasmus and Albrecht Dürer. At the time of his death in Seville (1539), Ferdinand Columbus owned more than 3,200 prints and more...