A bibliographer gets political
26th October 2022
Jules Gay (1807–1887) is remembered by book historians for publishing over 400 works from history which he thought ‘libre’ (i.e. uninhibited) in content, as well as his famous Bibliographie des principaux ouvrages relatifs à l’amour, aux femmes et au mariage (1861). But this libertine publisher and bibliographer was also a committed socialist. In London, in […]
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