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 * //__Under The Cloak Books__//**

The “under-the-cloak” sale was one of the major trends in literature during the time period of 1750-1789. Books that featured scandalous topics which included pornography and teachings from philosophes were censored and could not be printed in some countries, so they were printed abroad and smuggled illegally. This was most common for central, eastern, and southern Europe where they received their books from companies in the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, and a small, western portion of Germany. After receiving banned books, they were sold “under-the-cloak”. Police and other types of security did its best to stop the trade, but more books were being published, so they gave up. This illegal book trade also helped people move away from the traditional trend of reading holy scripts or parables and more towards a wide variety of topics which was known as a “reading revolution”. McKay, John P, et al. __A History of Western Societies__. Boston, Massachusetts. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. “book/daddy.” Online. Internet. Google



 