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Licensing loyalty : printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France / Jane McLeod.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z144 .M39 2011
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LIBRA Z144 .M39 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLeod, Jane.
- Series:
- Penn State series in the history of the book
- The Penn State series in the history of the book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing--France--History.
- Printing.
- Printers--Certification--France--History.
- Printers.
- Printers--France--Social conditions--History.
- Book industries and trade--Political aspects--France--History.
- Book industries and trade.
- Censorship--France--History.
- Censorship.
- History.
- Book industries and trade--Political aspects.
- Social conditions.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 302 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- "Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The early history of printers in provincial France, 1470-1660
- The vicissitudes of a royal decree : enforcing the October 1667 Order in Council regulating printers in the provinces
- The royal council takes control : the 1701 inquiry and the Bureau de la Librairie
- The purges : the enforcement of printer quotas in the provinces after 1704
- Arguments offered by printers in petitions for licences, 1667/1789
- Patronage and bureaucracy intersect : five case studies in the reign of Louis XVI
- Behind the rhetoric : the social position and politics of provincial printers, 1750/1789
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Printers' wealth in the eighteenth century
- Appendix B. Some licensed provincial printers involved in the clandestine book trade, 1750-89, by town.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780271037684
- 0271037687
- OCLC:
- 670238154
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