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I l l u s t r a t i o n s 1.1 Série Encyclopédique Glucq, Imagerie d’Épinal no. 3820, details 5 2.1 Foxe, Actes and Monuments (1570), title page 42 2.2 Foxe title page, detail 43 3.1 Jan van der Straet, Nova Reperta (ca. 1600), title page 68 3.2 Nova Reperta: Spectacles 72 3.3 Nova Reperta: Astrolabe 73 3.4 Nova Reperta: Cannon Foundry 74 3.5 Nova Reperta: Printing Shop 75 3.6 Nova Reperta: Oil Painting 76 3.7 Nova Reperta: Engraving 77 3.8 Bacon, Instauratio Magna (1620), engraved title page 82 4.1 Marchand, Histoire de l‘origine (1740), first page 103 4.2 Marchand, frontispiece 105 4.3 Grub Street Journal, 26 October, 1732, first page 106 4.4 Pope, The Dunciad, title pages from two editions 108 viii illustrations 4.5 Diderot and d’Alembert, two plates from l’Encyclopédie 125 4.6 Hogarth, ‘‘John Wilkes, esq.’’ 135 5.1 Daumier, ‘‘Ah! tu veux te frotter à la presse!’’ 173 5.2 Philipon, Louis-Philippe turned into a pear 174 5.3 Cruickshank, ‘‘A Freeborn Englishman’’ 183 5.4 The Stanhope Press. William Heath, 30 May 1829 185 6.1 The ‘‘fourth estate’’ (Press Gallery in the House of Commons), 1867 206 7.1 Uzanne, ‘‘The Author Making Cylinders of His Own Works’’; and ‘‘Manufacturing Books’’ 225 7.2 Uzanne, ‘‘The Author Exploiting His Own Works’’; and ‘‘Reading on the Limited’’ 226 ...

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