The Business of Enlightenment: a Publishing History of the Encyclopédie 1775-1800

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xiv,624pp; illus. From the library of James G. Mead, with his printed bookplate inside front cover. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper; laid in is a letter from the publisher requesting a review, addressed to noted American type designer Bert Clarke and signed by Arthur J Rosenthal, Director of the Harvard University Press. (Inventory #: 57139)