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"The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town of Neuchatel to bring this world to life. Like other places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-François Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the human scale of its operations. A Literary Tour de France is literally that. Darnton captures the hustle, picaresque comedy, and occasional risk of Favarger's travels in the service of books, and in the process offers an engaging, immersive, and unforgettable narrative of book culture at a critical moment in France's history"--

Book history --- anno 1700-1799 --- France --- Switzerland --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Books and reading --- Traveling sales personnel --- Publishers and publishing --- History --- Favarger, Jean-François --- Travel --- Société typographique de Neuchâtel --- History. --- Société typographique --- Livres --- Librairies --- Livres et lecture --- Voyageurs de commerce --- Éditeurs --- Industrie et commerce --- Voyages --- Histoire --- Société typographique de Neuchâtel --- Histoire. --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- E-books --- 655.4 <44> --- 655.41 <44> --- 655.42 <44> --- 094 "17" --- 655.4 <44> Publishing and bookselling in general--Frankrijk --- 655.4 <44> Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- Publishing and bookselling in general--Frankrijk --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- 094 "17" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- 655.42 <44> Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- 655.42 <44> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Frankrijk --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Frankrijk --- 655.41 <44> Publishing in general. Publishing houses. Publishers--Frankrijk --- 655.41 <44> Uitgeverij--algemeen--Frankrijk --- Publishing in general. Publishing houses. Publishers--Frankrijk --- Uitgeverij--algemeen--Frankrijk --- Éditeurs --- Favarger, Jean-François --- Société typographique