Title: Declaration du roy, concernant les imprimeurs
Description: Contains 12 articles confirming earlier regulations of the press, beginning with those of Henry II in 1547, which affected printers, compositors, booksellers and colporteurs. The Declaration forbids printing papal communications without state permission, publication of works tending to corrupt morals and to disturb public order and enjoins that all printed work must bear a place and date of imprint.
Subjects: Book industries and trade, Early works to 1800, Law and legislation, Booksellers and bookselling, Legal status, laws, Printers, Press law, Printing industry
Places: France