The Business of Enlightenment: Publishing History of the "Encyclopedie", 1775-1800: Publishing History of the "Encyclopedie", 1775-1800

by RDarnton (Author)

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  Paperback
  1987

  $58.06

  Darnton explores some fascinating territory in the genre of histoire du livre and tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing.