Title & Author:

The German book, 1450-1750 : studies presented to David L. Paisey in his retirement / edited by John L. Flood and William A. Kelly.

Publication:

London : British Library, 1995.

Description:

xvii, 382 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Series:

British Library studies in the history of the book

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
The second disturbance in quire F: an unsolved mystery in Fust and Schöffers's Psalterium Benedictinum of 1459 / Martin Boghardt. -- An early eighteenth-century sale of Mainz incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicans / Margaret Nickson and Lotte Hellinga. -- News from Portugal in 1506 and 1507, as printed by Johann Weissenburger in Nuremberg / Irmgard Bezzel. -- 'Caveat lector!' Edward Schröder's "facsimile' of the 1515 Strasbourg edition of Till Eulenspiegel and the consequences for scholarship / John L. Flood. -- New light on the presses of Adam Dyon and Kaspar Libisch in Breslau (1518-1540) / Helmut Claus. -- Dürer's Kleine Passion and a Venetian blockbook / Denis V. Reidy. -- Physicians and publishers: the translation of medical works in sixteenth-century Basle / Frank Hieronymus. -- Sixteenth-century German Bohemica in the British Library / Mirjam Bohatcová. -- The Antwerp edition of the works of Baptisa Mantuanus of 1576 and Johannes Lucienberger of Frankfurt am Main / Ulrich Kopp. -- Two German strays in Italy / Dennis Rhodes.
German funeral books and the genre of the festival description: a parallel development / Jill Bepler. -- A German-Dutch tapestry: some early seventeenth-century Dutch publications with German connections: Henrick van Haestens of Leiden and Jan Jansz of Arnhem / Anna E.C. Simoni. -- Who printed the text of the Hortus Eystettensis? / Nicolas Barker. -- Christian Cunrad's Hirten Gespräch. -- A man of many parts: some thoughts on the career of Christian Brehme, student, soldier, courtier, librarian, burghermaster, poet / Anthony J. Harper. -- Arcadian semiotics: the visual poetry of Sigmund von Birken (1626-81) / Jeremy Adler. -- The publication of a seventeenth-century bestseller: Sigmund von Birken's Der Donau-Strand (1664) / John Roger Paas. -- Festival books for religious occasions / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. -- Research on early German dissertations: a report on work in progress / Manfred Komorowski. -- Konrad Philipp Limmer (1658-1730): a neglected polymath / William A. Kelly. -- The 'splendid library' of the Counts of Auersperg in Ljubljana / Martin Bircher.
The House of Weidmann in Leipzig and the eighteenth-century importation of English books into Germany / Bernhard Fabian and Marie-Luise Spieckermann. -- Joseph Downing and the publication of pietist literature in England, 1705-1734 / Graham Jefcoate. -- Almanacks and poltergeists: Gottfried Kisling's interleaved Osznabrückscher Stiffts-Calendar (1713-1739) / Horst Meyer. -- The baroque sermon, illustrated by a collection from Austria and neighbouring territories / Graham Nattrass. -- Publications by David L. Paisey / Dennis E. Rhodes.

Summary:

"Twenty-six of the world's most eminent scholars in the field of historical bibliography have drawn extensively on the extraordinary depth and richness of the British Library's holdings of early printed books from the German-speaking countries to bring together this volume of essays in honour of David L. Paisey, recently retired curator of German books, whose highly acclaimed five-volume Catalogue of Books Printed in the German-speaking Countries and of German Books Printed in other Countries from 1601-1700 now in the British Library was published in 1994." "The essays explore a wide range of aspects of German book production from 1450 to 1750 and underline the centrality of the British Library's collections for current European research in the history of the book."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0712304045
9780712304047

Subject:

Paisey, David 1933-
British Library.
BMBF-Statusseminar
Bibel Ester
Books Germany History.
Printing Germany History.
Publishing history
Rare Books history
Book Industry history
Printing history
Livres Allemagne Histoire.
Imprimerie Allemagne Histoire.
Books.
Printing.
Buchdruck
Deutsch
Druckwerk
Aufsatzsammlung
Buch
Oude drukken.
Germany.
Deutschland
Books History

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliographie.
Biographie.
Festschriften.
History.
Mélanges (Recueils)

Added entries:

Flood, John L.
Kelly, W. A. (William A.)
Paisey, David.
British Library.
British Library studies in the history of the book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 81406
Call No.: ID Z315.G5; ID:95-B2676
Status: Available