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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Darnton, Robert.     Subjects     Favarger, Jean-François -- Travel -- France.     Société typographique de Neuchâtel -- History.     Book industries and trade -- France -- History -- 18th century.     Booksellers and bookselling -- France -- History -- 18th century.     Books and reading -- France -- History -- 18th century.     Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.     Traveling sales personnel -- Switzerland -- Biography.     Publishers and publishing -- Switzerland -- Neuchâtel -- History -- 18th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Darnton, Robert.       by title:      A literary tour de F...       by call number:      070.50944 D251L     Search the Web     Darnton, Robert.     Favarger, Jean-François -- Travel -- France.     Société typographique de Neuchâtel -- History.     Book industries and trade -- France -- History -- 18th century.     Booksellers and bookselling -- France -- History -- 18th century.     Books and reading -- France -- History -- 18th century.     Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.     Traveling sales personnel -- Switzerland -- Biography.     Publishers and publishing -- Switzerland -- Neuchâtel -- History -- 18th century.       MARC Display

A literary tour de France : the world of books on the eve of the French Revolution / Robert Darnton. by Darnton, Robert. Oxford University Press, 2018. Call #: 070.50944 D251L Subjects Favarger, Jean-François -- Travel -- France.   Société typographique de Neuchâtel -- History.   Book industries and trade -- France -- History -- 18th century.   Booksellers and bookselling -- France -- History -- 18th century.   Books and reading -- France -- History -- 18th century.   Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.   Traveling sales personnel -- Switzerland -- Biography.   Publishers and publishing -- Switzerland -- Neuchâtel -- History -- 18th century. ISBN:  9780195144512 (hc.) Description:  xv, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-333) and index. Summary:  "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 Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town of Neuchâtel to bring this world to life. Like other places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-François Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the human scale of its operations."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 070.50944 D251L Adult books Checked out Jul 26, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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