{"product_id":"french-books-in-eighteenthcentury-ireland-9780729407465","title":"French Books in eighteenthcentury Ireland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDublin 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Book trade networks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Learning French \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 ‘The polite and almost universal language’: the French language in use\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Publishing in French \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Importation of French-language books \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Ownership of French books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion","brand":"LUP - Voltaire Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359134089559,"sku":"9780729407465","price":95.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780729407465.jpg?v=1754123729","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/french-books-in-eighteenthcentury-ireland-9780729407465","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}