Contains the following Acts and commentaries (mostly print):
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Appendix to A Decree of Starre-Chamber Concerning Printing made the eleventh Day of July last past, 1637
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Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets, and for better Regulating of Printing, 1649
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An act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets, 1662
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An act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets, 1685
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An act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, 1708 (printed 1718)
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An act to amend the law of copyright, 1842
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Stamp Acts, 1757 and 1765
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Restraint against co-printing law books (manuscript, no date)
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A Letter To a Member of Parliament, Shewing, that a Restraint On the Press Is inconsistent with the Protestant Religion, and dangerous to te Liberties of the Nation, 1698 - anonymously authored tract, now variously attributed to Daniel Defoe and Matthew Tindal
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Further Reasons Humbly Offered... for making more effectual... An Act for the Encouragement of Learning - argument advanced on the Stationers' side in the Battle of the Booksellers
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A Bill for making more effectual... An act to enable to commissioners of His Majesty's stamp duties, 1735
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Legal Deposit Act, 1775 (two copies)
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An Act to enable to commissioners of His Majesty's stamp duties to stamp the paper of newspapers, 1794
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An Act for repealing the Duties on Paper, 1794
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An act from granting Samuel Buckley the sole liberty of printing and reprinting the histories of Thuanus, 1733
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Acts for prohibiting the Importation of Books re-printed Abroad, 1739 and 1746
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An Act for the further Encouragement of Learning, 1801
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Copyright Bill, 1881