Talk:Pierre Marteau

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Hi Olaf,

I have a question. How important was Marteau in terms of output and sales, compared to other publishers? I have read The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (1995) by Robert Darnton and I can't remember coming across Marteau.

BTW, great article, were you the first to touch upon Marteau in your book? And regarding your book, is an English version in the works?

P.S. there is an error in the rendering of the code in this fragment: "A second branch". The 'A' is not rendered although it's there in the source code.

--Jahsonic 17:58, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You touch the most stupid mistake of my life: not to write this book in English. Yet 714 pages would have killed me. The mistake is greater since I wrote half of that book on the English market. You find a translator and I'll be happy. Karl Klaus Walther did work on Marteau before. My own book is rather about the European market of books - primarily novels - on the European market, than on Marteau. The output of the German Marteau is well known, that of the French will be the mystery at the moment, yet I assume he was more productive than any of his rivals after 1650 (due to the fact that he was many). --Olaf Simons 20:20, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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First printed version of *The Book of Abramelin* (1725)

I removed this. This is obviously a late 19tn, ealy 20th century pront. May be the content is older. But it needs to be clarified what this is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Olaf Simons (talk • contribs) 09:29, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]