L’inventario della libreria Bouchard e Gravier di Roma

All over the second half of the 18th century, the Bouchard and Gravier store in Via del Corso was the bookshop with the largest amount of French books in Rome. Its activity is here examined with the help of the inventory compiled in 1795 after the death of Jean Bouchard, who founded the store fifty years before. The inventory includes a detailed description of all the equipment in the store, not only the books. The information provided in this document throws light on some aspects of the business activities of the bookshops, in which sometimes the selling of books had just a subordinate role in earnings. Such observations al- low to depict some perspectives of research particularly referred to the Roman book-trade of the 18th century.