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Article: Livre, pouvoirs et societe a Paris au XVIIe siecle. 2 vols.; Geneva: Droz, 1999 and La Naissance du livre moderne: Mise en page et mise en texte du livre francais (XIVe-XVIIe siecles). (Reviews). (book review)
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Henri-Jean Martin. Livre, pouvoirs et societe a Paris au XVIIe siecle. 2 vols.; Geneva: Droz, 1999 and La Naissance du livre moderne: Mise en page et mise en texte du livre francais (XIVe-XVIIe siecles). Paris: Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, 2000.
This is not so much a review as an announcement of good news. To begin with, Henri-Jean Martin's 2-volume 1969 study, Livre, pouvoirs et societe, a classic of the history of the book in France, has been reedited, with a new preface by Roger Chartier. These volumes should be required reading for all early modernists and for anyone interested in the history of the French book trade. Martin's pioneering research casts ...