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Darnton has established himself as the world's authority on the business of book publishing in the Enlightenment ... What is fresh, and fascinating, are the detailed case histories - presented in lively prose by a scholar who knows more about them than anyone else. This is a study that anyone interested in the history of the book will want to read (and probably to own). * D. L. Patey, CHOICE *

Darnton has established himself as the world's authority on the business of book publishing in the Enlightenment ... What is fresh, and fascinating, are the detailed case histories -- presented in lively prose by a scholar who knows more about them than anyone else. This is a study that anyone interested in the history of the book will want to read (and probably to own). * D. L. Patey, CHOICE *

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Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus of Harvard University, and the author of The Great Cat Massacre (1984) and A Literary Tour de France (2018), among others.

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