Grand Scale brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size prints—a Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record. The most famous 16th-century woodcuts, engravings, and etchings were those done on an intimate scale. Yet artists also worked in another entire category of print production, producing mural-size prints that sometimes reached as high as ten feet. This handsome book, which features nearly 50 examples from Italy, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, explores these multiblock woodcut and multiplate engraving ensembles as vital contributions to the visual culture of their time. Published by the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, in association with their exhibition of the same name shown at the Yale University Art Gallery in 2008, Grand Scale includes five essays that document the relationship of monumental prints to the history of prints in general and also to mapmaking, painting, and book illustration, while addressing image design and modular printing from multiple, repeating blocks.