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CENSORSHIP AND THE CONTROL OF PRINT IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE 1600-1910.
Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors)

- Winchester : St Paul's Bibliographies 1992 - 8vo. - hardback - xii, 154 pages - ISBN 1873040164 / Order Nr. 37463 - Price: $ 30.00 View Table of Contents

First edition. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. The medium of print has always been identified as a crucial element in the exercise of power. Since the invention of printing a combination of interests - political, religious and cultural - have borne down on the Press in an attempt to shape and contain its output. Each stage of the production and distribution of printed material can be seen as a battlefield of competing ideologies, whether organized through such institutions as the Stationers' Company, Parliament, and the lending library, or represented by broad divisions within society at large.
In this collection of essays leading scholars investigate the interaction between authors, publishers, booksellers, readers and regulatory bodies in England and France across three centuries, and show the key role that the book trade - resisting or adapting to external pressure - has played in defining what is permissible to publish.

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THE HAMILTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, MODERN CABINETS, FURN... Catalog No. 14. With a greeting and index. Contains many black-and-white and color plates throughout. With advertisements for various cabinets, cases, accessories, etc. Rubbing at extremities, front cover curled, paste-downs and endpapers tanned at edges.