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Author McLeod, Jane

Title Licensing loyalty : printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France / Jane McLeod
Published University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages)
Series The Penn State series in the history of the book
Penn State series in the history of the book.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index
Notes English
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Subject Printing -- France -- History
Printers -- Certification -- France -- History
Printers -- France -- Social conditions -- History
Book industries and trade -- Political aspects -- France -- History
Censorship -- France -- History
Printers -- France -- Social conditions
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Book industries and trade -- Political aspects
Censorship
Printing
Boktryckarkonst -- historia -- Frankrike.
Boktryckare -- historia -- Frankrike.
Bokmarknaden -- sociala aspekter -- historia -- Frankrike.
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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