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Malesherbes: Mémoires sur la librairie et sur la liberté de la presse Malesherbes ; introd. and notes by Graham E. Rodmell.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de, 1721-1794.
- Series:
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 213.
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; 210 [i.e. 213]
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Booksellers and bookselling--France.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Press law--France.
- Press law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (398 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : U.N.C., Dept. of Romance Languages : [distributed by University of North Carolina Press], 1979.
- Summary:
- This work is a valuable addition to understanding issues of the press and censorship in France.Rodmell's introduction emphasizes publication problems faced by writers in eighteenth- century France.This edition includes Malesherbes's first and second Mémoire, to which Rodmell adds seventeen pages of notes.
- Contents:
- Cover
- MÉMOIRES SUR LA LIBRAIRIE ET SUR LA LIBERTÉ DE LA PRESSE
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Malesherbes' life
- The Book Trade
- Malesherbes as Directeur de la librairie
- The Mémoires sur la librairie
- The Mémoire sur la liberté de la presse
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- TEXT
- NOTES
- APPENDIX
- The text of the principal laws governing the book trade in France under the ancien régime
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4696-4303-0
- OCLC:
- 1080549073
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