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Between State and Market - Printing and bookselling in eighteenth-century France (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Between State and Market - Printing and bookselling in eighteenth-century France (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2007:05
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How did print spread through France to become a major force during
the eighteenth century? This question has remained unanswered
because we know surprisingly little about the infrastructure of the
book trade. Between state and market: printing and bookselling in
eighteenth-century France explores the networks of printers and
booksellers that covered eighteenth-century France, situating these
key cultural intermediaries within their political and
socio-economic environments. To draw an overview of printing and
bookselling, and to chart their evolution across the century, the
author analyzes a series of administrative surveys conducted
between 1700 and 1777 by the Direction de la librairie. The
hundreds of reports the central administration gathered on every
printing shop and bookseller in the kingdom reveal not only where
book professionals could be found and who they were, but what
materials they were printing and what books they were selling.
Survey responses also show that book policing was deficient in most
of the provinces, allowing pirated and forbidden books to pour into
the kingdom from nearby foreign presses. Unable to control the
circulation of books, the administration resorted to an austere
Colbertist policy to restrict the number of printing shops. State
intervention brought a decline in provincial book publishing, but
printers could still thrive on job printing, local-interest
publications and pirating. By contrast, the central administration
let booksellers of all kinds proliferate, particularly in the
second half of the century. Better suited than traditional
printer-booksellers to supply whatever books readers wanted, retail
booksellers cashed in on a booming market demand. Examining the
booktrade from each provincial city upwards, the author tracks the
intricate web of relations between state, market, local
institutions and book professionals that shaped the diffusion of
print, and thereby the development of French literature and the
experience of everyday readers.
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