To browse the collection search for “F 39. 326 and is followed by the year of publication and the first letter or two of the pamphlet title. Nearly all of these pamphlets are individually cataloged. How to find Early French Political Pamphlets The bulk of the collection was purchased in the late 1940s from New York book dealer H.P. This collection of about 3,000 French political pamphlets published between 1560 to 1653 documents a period of religious wars and the establishment of the absolute monarchy. The collections also enrich the study of colonial history in North America and the Caribbean and the impact of the French Revolution beyond Europe. The material is of particular interest to scholars of the French Revolution, but the value of the pamphlets is not limited to scholars of French or European history. The Newberry’s French pamphlet collections support multiple fields of literary and historical study, including legal, social, and cultural history, and the history of printing and publication in France. The Newberry’s cataloging project team created a blog, French Pamphlet Collections at the Newberry Library, to document their work as they created MARC records for 22,000 pamphlets. The Newberry also has French pamphlets that were acquired in smaller collections or individually these too can be located through the online catalog.Ĭataloging of five of these French pamphlet collections was made possible by a 2009 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. This guide provides summary descriptions of each and includes tips for finding pamphlets in our Online Catalog. There are several discrete collections of French pamphlets at the Newberry, spanning the 16th through the 19th centuries.
0 kommentar(er)
