Bibliography - History of the book

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  Jean Paul BARBIER

  Ma Bibliothèque poétique. Quatrième partie : Contemporains et successeurs de Ronsard

  Tome IV : De Marquets à Pasquier

  Librairie Droz | Varia

  The latest volume in the catalogue of Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller's collection presents the works of seventeen poets: Anne de Marquets, Raymond and Charles de Massac, Pierre Matthieu, Gabriel de Minut, Jean Mondin, Jean Edouard du Monin, Antoine de...

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  Pierre M. CONLON

  Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

  T. XXIII, 1788

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 23

  When Buffon died in 1788, two biographies celebrated his life. Rousseau and Voltaire, who had both disappeared ten years earlier, were still very much present in people’s memory. There were numerous French translations of English and German books...

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  Christian COPPENS, Angela NUOVO

  I Giolito e la stampa nell'Italia del XVI secolo

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 402

  The Giolito de’ Ferrari family was, together with the Manuzio and Giunti, one of the most important publishing dynasties in fifteenth-century Italy. Their publishing activity is carefully contextualized, thanks in particular to a thorough...

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  Massimo DANZI

  La Biblioteca del Cardinal Pietro Bembo

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 399

  An extensive essay on the literary and artistic culture of Pietro Bembo (Venice 1470 – Rome 1547) introduces this edition of the only known catalogue of Bembo’s library, recently discovered in Cambridge. In 1540, Jean Matal made an inventory of...

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  Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France

  Volume XVII, Haute-Normandie

  Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  All seventeenth-century creators, be they writers, artists, or architects, drew inspiration from the Aeneid, whether they acknowledge their debt to Virgil or not. ‘Heirs’ openly claim their Virgilan ancestry, ‘prodigal sons’ recognize it but seek new...

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  Michel SIMONIN

  L’Encre et la lumière : quarante-sept articles (1976-2000)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 391

  Sources, the writing process, the author as editor, editorial policies, distribution, as well as how books were received by the public are all central concerns of these approximately 50 articles by the biographer and editor of Ronsard and Montaigne...

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  Béatrice BOUVIER

  L'Edition d'Architecture à Paris au XIXe siècle

  Les maisons Bance et Morel et la presse architecturale

  Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  In 1851, the Parisian bookseller Balthazar Bance and the architect Victor Calliat co-founded the Encyclopédie d’architecture, a journal that would spread the ideas of Viollet-le-Duc until 1892. The history of the journal is first and foremost the...

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  Jean-François GILMONT

  Le Livre et ses secrets

  Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

  «Le livre et ses secrets» combines articles written by Jean-François Gilmont over the past thirty years on the history of the book and of reading, sixteenth-century bibliographies, typographical production, as well as book reviews. A bibliography of...

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  Roméo ARBOUR

  Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France (1470-1870)

  Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  This Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France (1470-1870) seeks to promote further research in the role and participation of women in the principle tasks of bookmaking : printing, bookselling, bookbinding. 1470 marks the beginning of printing in...

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  Pierre M. CONLON

  Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

  T. XXII, 1786-1787

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 22

  The state of the Royal finances continued to deteriorate and every year a new deficit had to be added to all the previous ones. Calonne, in charge of finance, thought that a land tax would be an effective remedy. The King summoned the representatives...