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University of Santo Tomas Publishing House
Parent companyUniversity of Santo Tomas
StatusActive
Founded1593 (UST Press)
1996 (UST Publishing House)
FounderOrder of Preachers
Country of originPhilippines
Headquarters locationSampaloc, Manila
DistributionNationwide
Key peopleBenedict B. Parfan, Director
Paul A. Castillo, Deputy Director
Publication typesBooks, researches, monographs,
textbooks, artworks and other educational printed materials
Nonfiction topicsReligious studies, humanities and social sciences
Fiction genresContemporary Philippine literature
Official websitewww.ust.edu.ph/administrative-offices/publishing-house/

University of Santo Tomas Publishing House (USTPH) is a Filipino academic and literary publishing house. USTPH, in its current form, was established in 1996. It was inspired by the four-century-old UST Press, which was founded in 1593.[1] USTPH, formerly the UST Press, is the oldest continuing press in Asia today. It is even older than the University of Santo Tomas, which was established in 1611.[2]

History

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Historical marker installed in 1943 to commemorate the UST Press

Early Publications

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  • Doctrina Christiana - a catechism in Tagalog and Spanish. The first book published in the Philippines.
  • Baybayin - ancient Tagalog alphabet
  • Shih-Lu (Apologia de la Verdadera Religion) - a catechism for the Chinese in the Philippines
  • Historia de la Provincia del Santo Rosario de Filipinas by Diego Aduarte - a book about the Dominican Missions in the Far East, which was widely considered to be the best printed book of the 17th century and the last of the incunabulas
  • Flora en Filipinas - a classic book by Augustinian Manuel Blanco. It consists of four big volumes with 479 plates, half of them in splendid color lithographs (a copy of the colossal publishing project is preserved in the Rare Books Section of the UST Central Library).

Present Publications

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  • scholarly books
  • faculty researches
  • monographs
  • textbooks in all levels
  • artworks and designs
  • other educational printed materials

References

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  1. ^ History of UST Publishing House, retrieved 19 January 2010
  2. ^ The University of Santo Tomas Publishing House[usurped], retrieved 19 January 2010
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