The book triumphant

The book triumphant print in transition in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / [electronic resource] : edited by Malcolm Walsby, Graeme Kemp. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011. - xvi, 378 p. - Library of the written word. The handpress world, v. 15 1874-4834 ; . - Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 15. .

Papers based on the contributions given to two conferences held at the University of St. Andrews in September 2008 and September 2009. These conferences, entitled 'The Book in Transition: The Printed Book in the Post-Incunabula Age, 1500-1540' and 'The Book Triumphant: The book in the second-century of print, 1540-1640', were organised by the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) project group"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Printing in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century / Andrew Pettegree -- The Italian Renaissance book : catalogues, censuses, and survival / Neil Harris -- How complete are the German national bibliographies for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (VD16 and VD17)? / Jurgen Beyer -- The printed book on the Iberian peninsula, 1500-1540 / Alexander Wilkinson -- The vanishing press : printing in provincial France in the early sixteenth century / Malcolm Walsby -- Turning Luther's weapons against him : the birth of Catholic propaganda in Saxony in the 1520s / Christoph Volkmar -- Preaching and printing in Germany on the eve of the Thirty Years' War / Amy Nelson Burnett -- Pamphlets in the theological debates of the later sixteenth century : the Mainz editorial project 'Controversia et Confessio' / Johannes Hund and Henning P. Jurgens -- Devices of Protestant printers in sixteenth century Krakow / Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba -- History in transition : Enguerrand de Monstrelet's Chronique in manuscript and print (c. 1450-c. 1600) / Hanno Wijsman -- The 'Renaissance cultural crossroads' catalogue : a witness to the importance of translation in early modern Britain / Brenda M. Hosington -- Between Basel and Zurich : humanist rivalries and the works of Sebastian Munster / Matthew McLean -- The book and reading culture in Basel and Zurich during the sixteenth century / Urs B. Leu -- Augsburg's position in the system of the German book trade in the first half of the sixteenth century / Hans-Jorg Kunast -- Book trade practices in early sixteenth-century Paris : Pierre Vidoue (1516-1543) / David J. Shaw -- The coexistence of manuscript and print : handwritten newsletters in the second century of print, 1540-1640 / Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik.


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Books--History--Europe--1450-1600.
Books--History--Europe--17th century.
Printing--History--Europe--16th century.
Printing--History--Europe--17th century.
Book industries and trade--History--Europe--16th century.
Book industries and trade--History--Europe--17th century.


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