[typo] Societé typographique de Neufchâtel database

[Sebastien Plutniak <sebastien.plutniak@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bonjour à tous,

Ci-dessous une information que je relaie et qui devrait intéresser les colistiers. 
Il s'agit de l'ouverture d'une base de données en ligne, relative aux publications
de la Société typographique de Neufchâtel à la fin du XVIIIe s.


Bonne journée,
SP


Simon Burrows and Mark Curran are pleased to 
announce the on-line publication of the French Book Trade in 
Enlightenment Europe database at:

http://chop.leeds.ac.uk/stn/

A major resource for bibliographical, historical and literary 
scholarship, it is now made freely available to academics and the wider 
public.

The database, funded by a £355,485 grant from the British Arts and 
Humanities Research Council, tracks the dissemination of over 400,000 
copies of almost 4,000 editions of 3,600 works around Europe by a 
celebrated Swiss publisher-bookseller, the Société typographique de 
Neuchâtel (STN), in the period 1769-1794.

The database allows users to explore the STN’s supply and distribution 
networks across time and space, on both a macro and a micro level. They 
can investigate the dissemination of single works or the trade of 
individual clients; the STN’s client networks; the distribution patterns
 for all works, or those by a particular author or on particular themes.
 Specialist tools allow for geographic mapping; the graphing of trends 
over time; or the creation of local and regional best-sellers tables. 
Advanced query options make it possible to make specialised searches by,
 among other things, legal or illegal sectors; gender or clients; or 
place of publication.

Using a state-of-the-art intuitive user interface, the database is also accompanied by written guides and instructional videos.


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‘This is a fantastically rich research tool, bringing up an astonishing amount of detailed information across the whole range of late eighteenth-century print culture. It will surely become established as a valuable point of reference for just about everyone with an interest in the period, and it is hard to think of a more signal service which might be made to current eighteenth-century scholarship relating to France.’

-         Simon MacDonald, University College London

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Simon Burrows
Professor of Modern European History
University of Leeds

Principal investigator
'The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1787'
http://chop.leeds.ac.uk/stn/
http://frenchbooktrade.wordpress.com/