Description
Book SynopsisA collection of studies by Giles Barber from leading British and European bibliographical journals over 30 years, a fusion of Anglo-Saxon and French analytical bibliography, leading to the history of the book approach. It covers book production, bookselling and the dynamics of the trade, shaped by shifts in language dominance and reading habits.
Table of ContentsPreface
Martin-Dominique Fertel and his Science pratique de l'imprimerie
From Canaletto to the ostrich: Parisian popular entertainment in 1755
Voltaire et la présentation typographique de Candide
Modèle genevois, mode européenne: le cas de Candide et de ses contrefaçons
Flowers, the Butterfly - and Clandestine Books
From press to purchase: the making of the book after its printing
Le vocabulaire français de la reliure au dix-huitième siècle
Continental paper wrappers and publishers' bindings in the eighteenth century
French royal decrees concerning the booktrade from 1700 to 1789
The Cramers of Geneva and their trade in Europe between 1755 and 1766
Voltaire and the "maudites editions de Jean Nourse"
Books from the Old World and for the New: the British international trade in books in the eighteenth century
Who were the booksellers of the Enlightenment?: Pendred abroad: a view of the late eighteenth century book- trade in Europe
The financial history of the Kehl Voltaire
J. J. Tourneisen of Basle and the publication of English books on the Continent c. 1800
Galignani's and the publication of English books in France from 1800 to 1852
Treuttel and Wurtz: some aspects of the importation of books from France c. 1825
Additional Notes
Index
