(Colportage - Popular Literature). Set of 7 volumes. - Lot 85

(Colportage - Popular Literature). Set of 7 volumes. - SOCARD (Alexis). Popular books printed in Troyes from 1600 to 1800. Hagiography, asceticism. Volume illustrated with 120 engravings printed from the original woodblocks. Paris and Troyes, 1864. In-8, [2 ff], IV , 176 pp, unbound. Extremely rare first edition. Limited edition of 200 copies, all numbered on Holland paper. Complete with the large insert plate mentioned by Vicaire. - Dictionary of the Francophone Popular Novel. Edited by Daniel Compère. Preface by Pascal Ory. Paris, 2007. In-8, 490 pp, [16 ff] of color illustrations, publisher’s illustrated cardboard binding. “With its 500 entries, this work constitutes a veritable encyclopedia of the Francophone popular novel from the late 18th century to the present day.” Bibliography, chronology, index. - Colportage and Popular Reading. Widely Circulated Printed Materials in Europe, 16th–19th Centuries. Paris, 1996. In-8, 472 pp, paperback, illustrated cover. “The texts collected in this volume illustrate how the history of colportage, reading, and popular genres can serve as a prime arena for expressing the fruitful alliance between textual criticism, the history of the book, and the historical sociology of the uses of the written word.” - FONTAINE (Laurence). A History of Peddling in Europe. 15th–19th Centuries. Paris, 1993. In-8, 334 pp, [1 f], paperback. Index of names cited. - Tradition and History in Popular Culture. Discussions on the Work of Jean-Michel Guilcher. Grenoble, Musée Dauphinois, 1990. In-8, 335 pp., paperback. - ARTIAGA (Loïc). The Popular Novel, 1836–1960. Paris, Autrement, 2008. In-8, 186 pp., paperback. A few illustrations. - CHAUTARD (Émile). The Strange Life of Slang. Paris, Denoël et Steele, 1931. Large in-8 volume, XIV pp, [1 f], 720 pp, brown cloth, cover and spine preserved. First edition. Illustrated with 124 documents, letters, autographs, portraits, drawings, and photographs.