Censorship and the Control of Print in England and France, 1600-1910

Contents: State control of the press in theory and practice: the role of the Stationers' Company before 1640 / Sheila Lambert Catholic texts and anti-Catholic prejudice in the 17th-century book trade / Alison Shell 'The fiery Tryal of their Infallible Examination': self-control in the regulation of Quaker publishing in England from the 1670s to the mid 19th century / David J. Hall The absolutism of taste: journalists as censors in 18th-century Paris / Anne Goldgar Church censorship in the 19th century: the Index of Leo XIII / Michael J. Walsh 'Can't you find me something nasty?': circulating libraries and literary censorship in Britain from the 1890s to the 1910s / Nicholas Hiley.