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85 - (Pamphlet-selling – Popular Literature).
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(Pamphlet-selling – Popular Literature). Set of 7 volumes. - SOCARD (Alexis). Popular books printed in Troyes from 1600 to 1800. Hagiography, asceticism. Volume illustrated with 120 engravings printed from the original woodblocks. Paris and Troyes, 1864. In-8, [2 ff], IV , 176 pp, unbound. Extremely rare first edition. Print run limited to 200 copies, all numbered on Dutch paper. Complete with the large inset plate mentioned by Vicaire. - Dictionnaire du roman populaire francophone. Edited by Daniel Compère. Preface by Pascal Ory. Paris, 2007. In-8, 490 pp, [16 ff] of colour illustrations, publisher’s illustrated hardback. ‘With its 500 entries, this work constitutes a veritable encyclopaedia of the Francophone popular novel from the late 18th century to the present day’. Bibliography, chronology, index. - Peddling and Popular Reading. Widely Circulated Printed Matter in Europe, 16th–19th Centuries. Paris, 1996. In-8, 472 pp, paperback, illustrated cover. “ The texts brought together in this volume illustrate how the history of colportage, reading and popular genres can be one of the prime areas in which the fruitful alliance between textual criticism, the history of the book and the historical sociology of the uses of the written word finds expression”. - FONTAINE (Laurence). A History of Peddling in Europe. 15th–19th Centuries. Paris, 1993. In-8, 334 pp, [1 f], paperback. Index of names cited. - Tradition and History in Popular Culture. Discussions on the work of Jean-Michel Guilcher. Grenoble, Musée Dauphinois, 1990. In-8, 335 pp, paperback. - ARTIAGA (Loïc). The Popular Novel 1836–1960. Paris, Autrement, 2008. In-8, 186 pp, paperback. A few illustrations. - CHAUTARD (Émile). The Strange Life of Slang. Paris, Denoël et Steele, 1931. A substantial in-8 volume, XIV pp, [1 f], 720 pp, brown cloth, cover and spine preserved. First edition. Illustrated with 124 documents, letters, autographs, portraits, drawings and photographs.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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