BILITHEQUE BLEUE WERE COPIES PUBLISHED BY USING THE POOR QUALITY OF THE PAPER AND IT CAN BE PURCHASED WITHOUT GIVING A SINGLE PENNY BUT MANY TIMES THE COST OF THESE COPIES DEPENDED UPON THE BOOK'S RANK. A PENNY CHAPBOOK IS AN ANCIENT TYPE OF TRADITIONAL LITERATURE CALLIGRAPHED IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE.
Bibliothèque bleue is in origin a term for a publishing scheme introduced 1602 in Troyes by the brothers Jean and Nicolas Oudot, in association with the family of Claude Garnier (1535-1589), who had been printer to the king. Oudot produced prints in low quality and small format. Sold with a blue paper cover, these brochure-like products came to be known as livres bleus, or "blue books"...
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BILITHEQUE BLEUE WERE COPIES PUBLISHED BY USING THE POOR QUALITY OF THE PAPER AND IT CAN BE PURCHASED WITHOUT GIVING A SINGLE PENNY BUT MANY TIMES THE COST OF THESE COPIES DEPENDED UPON THE BOOK'S RANK. A PENNY CHAPBOOK IS AN ANCIENT TYPE OF TRADITIONAL LITERATURE CALLIGRAPHED IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE.
Bibliothèque bleue is in origin a term for a publishing scheme introduced 1602 in Troyes by the brothers Jean and Nicolas Oudot, in association with the family of Claude Garnier (1535-1589), who had been printer to the king. Oudot produced prints in low quality and small format. Sold with a blue paper cover, these brochure-like products came to be known as livres bleus, or "blue books"...