TY  - BOOK
AU  - McLeod,Jane
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Licensing loyalty: printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France 
T2  - The Penn State series in the history of the book
SN  - 9780271053639
AV  - Z144 .M39 2011
U1  - 070.50944 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - University Park
PB  - Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Censorship
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Book industries and trade
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Printers
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Certification
KW  - Printing
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The early history of printers in provincial France, 1470-1660 -- The vicissitudes of a royal decree : enforcing the October 1667 Order in Council regulating printers in the provinces -- The royal council takes control : the 1701 inquiry and the Bureau de la Librairie -- The purges : the enforcement of printer quotas in the provinces after 1704 -- Arguments offered by printers in petitions for licences, 1667/1789 -- Patronage and bureaucracy intersect : five case studies in the reign of Louis XVI -- Behind the rhetoric : the social position and politics of provincial printers, 1750/1789 -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Printers' wealth in the eighteenth century -- Appendix B. Some licensed provincial printers involved in the clandestine book trade, 1750-89, by town
N2  - "Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780271053639/
ER  -