The book triumphant
Subtitle: print in transition in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
By: edited by Malcolm Walsby, Graeme Kemp
Series: Library of the written word -- v. 15. -- The handpress world -- v. 9
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9789004207233
Subjects: History; Books; Printing; Book industries and trade
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.
Table of contents: title: Printing in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century / Andrew Pettegree; title: The Italian Renaissance book : catalogues, censuses, and survival / Neil Harris; title: How complete are the German national bibliographies for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (VD16 and VD17)? / Jurgen Beyer; title: The printed book on the Iberian peninsula, 1500-1540 / Alexander Wilkinson; title: The vanishing press : printing in provincial France in the early sixteenth century / Malcolm Walsby; title: Turning Luther's weapons against him : the birth of Catholic propaganda in Saxony in the 1520s / Christoph Volkmar; title: Preaching and printing in Germany on the eve of the Thirty Years' War / Amy Nelson Burnett; title: Pamphlets in the theological debates of the later sixteenth century : the Mainz editorial project 'Controversia et Confessio' / Johannes Hund and Henning P. Jurgens; title: Devices of Protestant printers in sixteenth century Krakow / Justyna Kilianczyk-Zieba; title: History in transition : Enguerrand de Monstrelet's Chronique in manuscript and print (c. 1450-c. 1600) / Hanno Wijsman; title: The 'Renaissance cultural crossroads' catalogue : a witness to the importance of translation in early modern Britain / Brenda M. Hosington; title: Between Basel and Zurich : humanist rivalries and the works of Sebastian Munster / Matthew McLean; title: The book and reading culture in Basel and Zurich during the sixteenth century / Urs B. Leu; title: Augsburg's position in the system of the German book trade in the first half of the sixteenth century / Hans-Jorg Kunast; title: Book trade practices in early sixteenth-century Paris : Pierre Vidoue (1516-1543) / David J. Shaw; title: The coexistence of manuscript and print : handwritten newsletters in the second century of print, 1540-1640 / Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik.