Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775-1800 Tapa dura - 1992

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. First printing. Very Good +/very good +. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket,351pp.

Berkeley / New York: University of California Press / The New York Public Library, 1989. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only very lightly rubbed). NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently never read. Illustrated with many plates, some in full color on glossy stock. These essays address how the printing press helped shape the events it recorded. Includes 14 essays by distinquished scholars on Pre-Revolutionary Censorship; Malesherbes and the Call for a Free Press; Economic Upheavals in Publishing; Agitation in the Work Force; and separate chapters on Revolutionary Journals; Pamphlets; Books; Almanacs; Prints; Songs; and Ephemera. Many of the books, prints, and pamphlets are described in a 219 item, New York Public Library exhibition checklist, reprinted here as an appendix. Bound in the original light blue cloth, stamped in black on the spine. Complete with dust jacket.. First… Leer más

Berkeley, Los Angeles, ET AL: University of California Press. Fine. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0520064305 . A Fine first Edition/First Printing; Revolution in Print tells the story of the French press from its origins in the seventeenth century to the Revolution of 1789. The book focuses on the role of the press in the political, social, and cultural life of France during this period, and on the ways in which the press helped to shape the revolutions and the course of French history.; 8vo; 351 pages .

Berkeley: University of California Press in collaboration with the New York Public Library, 1989. Ex Library. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 351 pages; many illustrations.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.