Bibliography - History of the book

Imprimer sans profit? Le livre non commercial dans la Chine impériale

Non commercial books in Imperial China

Librairie Droz | Bibliography - History of the book n° 53/14

Based on the methodology of the history of the western book, recent histories of the Chinese book have first targeted the printed book in a commercial context. However, the European book evolved in very different circumstances from a technical, political and religious...

Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre, numéro 133 (2012)

Librairie Droz | Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre

François ROUGET

Ronsard et le livre (II)

Etude de critique génétique et d'histoire littéraire. Seconde partie : Les livres imprimés

Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

Reading, writing and book production marked the life of Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) almost in its entirety. The present study retraces the biographical, social ...

Histoire et civilisation du livre - Revue internationale, volume 8 (2012)

Pour une histoire transnationale du livre

Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre - Revue internationale

POUR UNE HISTOIRE TRANSNATIONALE DU LIVRE : Martyn Lyons et Jean-Yves Mollier, « L'histoire du livre dans une perspective transnationale » ; Jean-Pierre Drège, « Considérations brèves sur l’histoire du livre chinois dans une perspective transculturelle ».

Alexandre VANAUTGAERDEN

Erasme typographe

Humanisme et imprimerie au début du XVIe siècle

Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 503

Alexandre Vanautgaerden's research shows that Erasmus never ceased to adapt, depending on each type of text, the layouts of his books to best control their reception. A reversal of the traditional countdown of the exegesis of Erasmus’s works, ...

Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France. Volume XVIII

Bibliothèque de l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) | Histoire et civilisation du livre

The series of Regional Catalogues of Incunabula of the Libraries of France was begun in 1979, providing a thorough bibliography of the different works printed between 1450-1500 and present in the different libraries of France...

Etienne Dolet. 1509-2009

Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

Étienne Dolet (1509-1546) provoked passionate reactions, both during his lifetime and after. Resurrected as the "martyr of the Renaissance" at the end of the nineteenth century, Dolet has served as a lens for studying the religious problems...

Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre, numéro 132 (2011)

Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne | Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre

Guillaume BERTHON, « "Estienne Dolet, amy singulier de Clement Marot". Dolet éditeur du Valet de Marot contre Sagon (François Juste, 1537) » ; Gérard MORISSE, « Et même les lettrines partaient de Lyon vers Médina del Campo…(1553) ; Micheline RUEL-KELLERMA

Poètes, princes et collectionneurs

Mélanges offerts à Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller

Librairie Droz

Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance. Tome XLIII

Travaux parus en 2007

Librairie Droz | Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance

Victor HUGO

Les Contemplations

Reproduction au trait de l'original de 1856, offert à Auguste Vacquerie

Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

Victor Hugo's 1856 Les Contemplations was an immense success, selling out its first edition within days. The present work is a facsimile edition of the copy offered by Hugo to his lost daughter’s brother-in-law, Auguste Vacquerie...

Le livre demeure

Studies in Book History in Honour of Alison Saunders

Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

This collection of essays, celebrating the distinguished career of Alison Saunders (University of Aberdeen), consists of contributions from friends and colleagues from different stages of her life. All serve to demonstrate that, indeed, Le livre demeure..

Andreas PFERSMANN

Séditions infrapaginales : poétique historique de l'annotation littéraire (XVIIe-XXIe siècles)

Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 464

Andréas Pfersmann explores the use of marginal notes by authors from the seventeenth to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This comparative study examines how authors, from Baroque German dramas and Jonathan Swift's satire of erudition ...

Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance. Tome XLII, Travaux parus en 2006

Librairie Droz | Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance

The B.I.H.R. is the product of the international cooperation between eighteen countries . Each contributor inventories, year after year, every monograph, journal article, and collective work (miscellany, conference proceedings, etc.)...

Vérène de DIESBACH

Six siècles de littérature française. XVIIIe siècle. Bibliothèque Jean Bonna

Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque Jean Bonna

Vérène de DIESBACH

Six siècles de littérature française. XVIIe siècle. Bibliothèque Jean Bonna.

première partie (A-L) et deuxième partie (M-Z).

Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque Jean Bonna

François ROUGET

Ronsard et le livre. Etude de critique génétique et d'histoire littéraire

Première partie : lectures et textes manuscrits

Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

This study examines studies Pierre de Ronsard through his book production, describing the evolution in his literary and creative projects in his relation with their material production, ultimately showing how Ronsard profited from the book production ...

Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre, numéro 130 (2009)

Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne | Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre

Emmanuelle CHAPRON

"Ad utilità pubblica"

Politique des bibliothèques et pratiques du livre à Florence au XVIIIe siècle

Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

The landscape of Florentine libraries changed profoundly between the reign of the Medicis and the archdukes of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The opening of two public libraries, creation of specialized collections, dispersion of ecclesiastical collections and...

Histoire et civilisation du livre - Revue internationale, volume 4 (2008)

Les Langues imprimées

Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre - Revue internationale

Pierre M. CONLON

Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

T. XXVII, Deuxième supplément : 1716-1789

Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 27

There was a marked deterioration in living conditions during the final years of Louis XVI’s reign, compounded by a poor harvest in 1788 and a worrying unemployment rate. Representatives of the third estate clearly manifested their independence from...

Patricia GILLET

Etienne Baluze et l’histoire du Limousin : desseins et pratiques d’un érudit du XVIIe siècle

Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

Étienne Baluze is known to posterity as Colbert’s librarian, as a professor of canon law, and as an editor of ecclesiastical authors. Less well-known is his contribution to the history of the Limousin. This local deep-rootedness is visible between the...

Pierre M. CONLON

Le Siècle des Lumières : Bibliographie chronologique

T. XXVI, 1789, auteurs

Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 26

There was a marked deterioration in living conditions during the final years of Louis XVI’s reign, compounded by a poor harvest in 1788 and a worrying unemployment rate. Representatives of the third estate clearly manifested their independence from...

Pierre M. CONLON

Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

T. XXV, 1789, ouvrages anonymes: M-Z

Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 25

There was a marked deterioration in living conditions during the final years of Louis XVI’s reign, compounded by a poor harvest in 1788 and a worrying unemployment rate. Representatives of the third estate clearly manifested their independence from...

Frédéric BARBIER, Sabine JURATIC, Annick MELLERIO

Dictionnaire des imprimeurs, libraires et gens du livre à Paris (1701-1789): A-C

Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

Whereas the principle of state control over printed matter was constantly reaffirmed during the Enlightenment, the broadening of the readership, the demand for new texts, and the increase in French-language books published abroad made it all but all...

Pierre M. CONLON

Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

T. XXIV, 1789, ouvrages anonymes: A-L

Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 24

There was a marked deterioration in living conditions during the final years of Louis XVI’s reign, compounded by a poor harvest in 1788 and a worrying unemployment rate. Representatives of the third estate clearly manifested their independence from...

Ma Bibliothèque poétique. Sixième partie : Poètes italiens de la Renaissance dans la Bibliothèque de la Fondation Barbier-Mueller. De Dante à Chiabrera

Catalogue établie par Jean Balsamo, avec la collaboration de Franco Tomasi. Préface de Carlo Ossola

Librairie Droz

The Barbier-Mueller Foundation for the study of Italian poetry of the Renaissance has a rich collection of mainly sixteenth-century books. This catalogue gives precise bibliographic descriptions of 452 rare editions, creating a panorama of poetry...

Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre, numéros 126-127 (2005-2006)

Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne | Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre

Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France

Volume XVI, Auvergne

Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

Once complete, the series will catalogue all published works from the first half-century of the 'Gutenberg era' (1455-1500) that are held in French libraries. The catalogues make incunabula more accessible to researchers, and also give the wider...

Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre, numéros 122-125 (2005)

Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne | Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre, numéros 114-115 (2002-1)

Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne | Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre

Index des livres interdits

T. XI, Index librorum prohibitorum (1600-1966)

Librairie Droz | Index des livres interdits

The present catalogue records all the books placed on the Roman Index from 1600 until its disappearance in 1966. The catalogue offers succinct biographical information on approximately 3’000 authors as well as a brief description and the location of...

Jean Paul BARBIER

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

Tome III : De La Gessée à Malherbe

Librairie Droz | Varia

Part IV, tome III ranges from La Gessée to Malherbe via Jean and Jacques de La Taille, Michel de L’Hospital and Olivier Magny, with notably an important biographical note on Malherbe and a detailed description of the first collective edition (1630) of...

Frédéric BARBIER

Lumières du Nord. Imprimeurs, libraires et "gens du livre" dans le Nord de la France au XVIIIe siècle (1701-1789)

Dictionnaire prosopographique

Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

The Enlightenment was a time of fundamental change in the world of books. As early as 1760-1770, a “second revolution of the book” occured, strongly linked to political and industrial revolutions. This pivotal era has long been scrutinized by...

Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre, numéros 112-113 (2001-2)

Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne | Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre

Alison ADAMS, Stephen RAWLES, Alison M. SAUNDERS

A Bibliography of French Emblem Books

Vol. 2, L-Z

Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 362

Un second volume (de L à Z) vient compléter A bibliography of French emblem books. Il inclut, parmi de nombreux autres titres, le premier livre d’emblèmes publié sur le sol français, le Theatre des bons engins de Guillaume de la Perrière, des œuvres...

Jean BALSAMO, Michel SIMONIN

Abel L'Angelier & Françoise de Louvain (1574-1620)

Suivi du catalogue des ouvrages publiés par Abel L'Angelier (1574-1610) et La veuve L'Angelier (1610-1620)

Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 358

Abel L’Angelier and Françoise de Louvain have reigned over the Parisian literary world for half a century. As well as the authors they published, they have contributed to the illustration of the French language, to its consecration as Court and...

Pascale HUMMEL

Mœurs érudites : étude sur la micrologie littéraire (Allemagne, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)

Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

"Micrological" texts describing the habits of scholars and mainly originating in German universities of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries form a voluminous, yet little-known body of writing. In their time, they gave rise to an alternative and...

Pierre M. CONLON

Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

T. XXI, 1784-1785

Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 21

Conlon, Le Siècle des Lumières, t. XXI is the continuation of a vast enquiry into the second part of the XVIIIth century. This volume centres on the years 1784 and 1785. All previous volumes are...

Jean Paul BARBIER

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

Tome II : De Desportes à La Boétie

Librairie Droz | Varia

This four-volume catalogue of editions of the main XVth and XVIth-century French poets is without doubt the most comprehensive since the XIXth century. This is the second tome of Volume IV, which lists the poets of the second half of the XVIth century...

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