Description
Book SynopsisDublin dominated the Irish trade in French-language books, its major booksellers importing stock from London and European publishing centres and distributing books and periodicals wholesale and by catalogue to the larger Irish cities and towns.
Trade Review'A comprehensive examination of the trade in French books in the last century of the Irish ancien régime. [...] The monograph ends with four helpful tables: French schoolbooks printed in Ireland, schools and teachers teaching French, the top hundred authors in Irish private libraries, and catalogues of named Irish library owners. [...] [Kennedy] has succeeded admirably in proving that a wide circle of Irish people were eager to learn, for practical, social and sometimes intellectual reasons, of the prestige culture of France.'
Library History
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Book trade networks
2 Learning French
3 ‘The polite and almost universal language’: the French language in use
4 Publishing in French
5 Importation of French-language books
6 Ownership of French books
Conclusion
