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The business of books : booksellers and the English book trade, 1450-1850 / James Raven.

Paratexts : thresholds of interpretation / Gérard Genette ; translated by Jane E. Lewin ; foreword by Richard Macksey.

The corpus of clandestine literature in France, 1769-1789 / Robert Darnton.

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The business of books : booksellers and the English book trade, 1450-1850 / James Raven.

Paratexts : thresholds of interpretation / Gérard Genette ; translated by Jane E. Lewin ; foreword by Richard Macksey.

The corpus of clandestine literature in France, 1769-1789 / Robert Darnton.