xii, 154 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Contents
State control of the press in theory and practice : the role of the Stationers' Company before 1640 / Sheila Lambert -- Catholic texts and anti-Catholic prejudice in the 17th-century book trade / Alison Shell -- 'The fiery Tryal of their Infallible Examination' : self-control in the regulation of Quaker publishing in England from the 1670s to the mid 19th century / David J. Hall -- The absolutism of taste : journalists as censors in 18th-century Paris / Anne Goldgar -- Church censorship in the 19th century : the Index of Leo XIII / Michael J. Walsh -- 'Can't you find me something nasty?' : circulating libraries and literary censorship in Britain from the 1890s to the 1910s / Nicholas Hiley
