A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

by Robert Darnton

The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclop?die, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195144511
• ISBN13: 9780195144512
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"