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Some of you may already be aware of this project
(http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bookproj/):
"The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) is a project aimed at
bringing together information on all books published in Europe
between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century.
The project will create a searchable interface, bringing together
data from established national bibliographical projects and new
projects undertaken by the project team based in St Andrews, with
partners in University College, Dublin. This new work builds upon
the principles established by the St Andrews French Vernacular Book
project, completed and published in 2007....
In 2011 this will all be brought together with information on books
published in Italy, Germany and Britain to create a fully searchable
resource covering all of Europe. This will provide access to the
full bibliographic information, locations of surviving copies and,
where available, digital full text editions that can be accessed
through the database. All told, this information will encompass
approximately 350,000 editions and around 1.5 million surviving
copies, located in over 5,000 libraries worldwide."
I believe access is to be free, and due to open sometime in 2011.
On a (slightly) related note, for those interested, see the recent book:
Pettegree, Andrew (2010). _The Book in the Renaissance_. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 440 pp. ill. ISBN: 9780300110098. $40.
There is some discussion tying names familiar to the history of
cartography to the fits and starts of the contemporary print trade.
Joel Kovarsky
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