# paperhistory bookhistory

All eyes on Paul M. Dover's new book that highlights the known "information revolution" but this time by paying more attention to the circulation of information "chiefly on newly available and affordable paper".

https://t.co/9uV3HyZPcx

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2021-07-29

How to make fun of the Leipzig book fair in 1800?

A thread for and that uses the satirical print "Der Jahrmarkt zu Plundersweilern". Come for the bookish stuff, stay for the pornographical bestsellers of late eighteenth-century Germany.

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