David M. Hart, \u201cGilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1801-64) and the Guillaumin Publishing Firm (1837-1910)\u201d with my list of their titles. It also contains many links to individual Guillaumin book catalogs which were often appended to the books they published. I have plucked them out as I was editing the books to go online. Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n See also my essay on \u201cThe Paris School of Political Economy 1803-1853\u201d here<\/a> and my main page on \u201cThe Paris School of Political Economy\u201d on my website<\/a>.<\/p>\n The book publisher and classical liberal activist Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1801-64). Guillaumin was a mid-19th century French classical liberal publisher who founded a publishing dynasty which lasted from 1835 to around 1910 and became the focal point for the classical liberal movement in France.<\/p>\n Guillaumin was orphaned at the age of five and was brought up by his uncle. He came to Paris in 1819 and worked in a bookstore before eventually founding his own b bookshop and publishing firm in 1835. He became active in liberal politics during the July Monarchy after the revolution of 1830 and made contact with a number of free market economists. He became a publisher in 1835 in order to popularize and promote classical liberal economic ideas, and the firm of Guillaumin eventually became the major publishing house for classical liberal ideas in 19th century France. Guillaumin helped found the Journal des \u00e9conomistes<\/em> in 1841 and the following year he helped found the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9conomie politique<\/em> which became the main organization which brought like-minded classical liberals together for discussion and debate.<\/p>\n The business was located in the Rue Richelieu, no. 14, in a very central part of Paris not far from the River Seine, the Tuileries Gardens, the Louvre Museum, the Palais Royal, the Com\u00e9die Fran\u00e7aise theatre, and the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France. The above picture postcard shows the Moli\u00e8re fountain at the intersection of the Rue Richelieu (left) and the Rue Moli\u00e9re (right) near the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Palais Royal. The fountain was built in 1844 opposite the building, 40 Rue Richelieu, where Moli\u00e8re had once lived. The office which housed the Librairie de Guillaumin et Cie would have been about half way down the Rue Richelieu from the fountain.<\/p>\n His firm \u201cGuillaumin\u201d published hundreds of books on economic issues, making its catalog a virtual who\u2019s who of the liberal movement in France. Their 1866 catalog listed 166 separate book titles, not counting journals and other periodicals. For example, he published the works of Jean-Baptiste Say, Charles Dunoyer, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, Gustave de Molinari and many others, including translations of works by Hugo Grotius, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n By the mid-1840s Guillaumin\u2019s home and business had become the focal point of the classical liberal lobby in Paris which debated and published material opposed to a number of causes which they believed threatened liberty in France: statism, protectionism, socialism, militarism, and colonialism. The historian G\u00e9rard Minart coined the term \u201cle r\u00e9seau Guillaumin\u201d (the Guillaumin network) to describe the interconnected commercial, intellectual, political, and personal links which existed between the various liberal groups which met in or around the firm\u2019s headquarters in Paris for several decades.<\/p>\n After his death in 1864 the firm\u2019s activities were continued by his oldest daughter F\u00e9licit\u00e9, and after her death it was handed over to his youngest daughter Pauline. The firm of Guillaumin continued in one form or another from 1835 to 1910 when it was merged with the publisher F\u00e9lix Alcan.<\/p>\n During the period I am most interested in (1837-1852 – 16 years) the firm published 360 titles at an average rate of 22.5 p.a. Some of the more important and innovative of those texts are listed below. They include texts which were in fact published as well as those which must have been in production during that time and appeared very shortly afterwards. Who decided what titles to commission and publish and what criteria they used to choose them are not known. One can only infer that Gilbert Guillaumin as owner and founder of the firm had a strong say in this editorial policy.<\/p>\n I think the \u201cjewell in the crown\u201d of the Guillaumin firm in the early period was the monumental, 2 volume Dictionnaire de l\u2019\u00e9conomie politique<\/em> (1852-53) which was edited by Coquelin et Guillaumin himself. The DEP<\/a> is a two volume, 1,854 page, double-columned encyclopedia of political economy and is unquestionably one of the most important publishing events in the history of 19th century French classical liberal thought and is unequalled in its scope and comprehensiveness. The aim was to assemble a compendium of the state of knowledge of liberal political economy with articles written by leading economists on key topics, biographies of important historical figures, annotated bibliographies of the most important books in the field, and tables of economic and political statistics.<\/p>\n The Economists believed that the events of the 1848 Revolution had shown how poorly understood the principles of economics were among the French public, especially its political and intellectual elites. One of the tasks of the DEP was to rectify this situation with an easily accessible summary of the entire discipline. The major contributors were the editor Charles Coquelin (with 70 major articles), Gustave de Molinari (29), Horace Say (29), Joseph Garnier (28), Ambroise Cl\u00e9ment (22), Courcelle-Seneuil (21), and Maurice Block wrote most of the biographical entries.<\/p>\n Using the publishing data from Malbranque and my own lists of titles I have determined that:<\/p>\n Graph of Books Published by Year<\/p>\n See a larger version<\/a> of this image (1470×360 px).<\/p>\n Data Summary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source of Data Beno\u00eet Malbranque, “Liste compl\u00e8te des titres publi\u00e9s par Guillaumin (1837-1910)”, Institut Coppet (janvier 2, 2017) here. David M. Hart, \u201cGilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1801-64) and the Guillaumin Publishing Firm (1837-1910)\u201d with my list of their titles. It also contains many links to individual Guillaumin book catalogs which were often appended to the books they … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tradition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204727,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/204727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1801-64)<\/h2>\n
![](\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RueRichelieu450.jpg\")
<\/p>\nKey Texts published between 1837 and 1852<\/h2>\n
\n
Analysis of the Yearly Publication of Titles<\/h2>\n
\n
![](\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GuillauminCatalogGraph700.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GuillauminPublishing-dataanalysis500.jpg\")
<\/p>\n