The book triumphant : print in transition in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / edited by Malcolm Walsby, Graeme Kemp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walsby, Malcolm.

Kemp, Graeme

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Library of the written word ; 15.

Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 9.

Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; v. 15. The handpress world ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Europe--History--1450-1600.

Books.

Books--Europe--History--17th century.

Printing--Europe--History--16th century.

Printing.

Printing--Europe--History--17th century.

Book industries and trade--Europe--History--16th century.

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--Europe--History--17th century.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xvi, 378 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Summary:

Books printed in the fifteenth century have been the subject of much in-depth research. In contrast, the beginning of the sixteenth century has not attracted the same scholarly interest. This volume brings together studies that charter the development of printing and bookselling throughout Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It presents new research and analysis on the impact of the Reformation, on how texts were transmitted and on the complex relationships that affected the production and sale of books. The result is a wide-ranging reappraisal of a vital period in the history of the printed book. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004207236

9789004207233

OCLC:

730114567

Publisher Number:

99946104489