File 01 - Papers relating to entry of copies

1 volume

i: request by John Patison to enter William McEwen's Essays Doctrinal and Practical, 2 Jun 1767.

ii: notice of publication of Advice to young Gentlemen in the Several conditions of life by way of address from a Father to his Children by the Abbot Goussault Counsellor in Parliament; with his Sentiments and maxims upon what passes in civil society, undated.

iii: request by Jane Kettlewell to enter The Practical Believer, Christian Prudence, The Doctrine of the Cross and The Companion to the Penitent and Persecuted, 30 Oct 1699

iv: manuscript title page for Josiah Burchit's Memoires of Transactions at Sea during the Warr with France, 1703.

v: printed letter from John Snow to the livery regarding fees for entering copies since the 1842 Copyright Act, Dec 1877.

vi: request by John Gray to enter The Assembly's Shorter Catechism Explained, 16 Jan 1772.

vii: extract minute of the committee of directors of the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in Scotland, 3 May 1770.

viii: letter from John Ven requesting a full extract of the entry of his father-in-law Ralph Erskine's works and advice on his exclusive right to print these works, 7 Sep 1769.

ix: letter from Thomas Carnan confirming that Juvenile Trials and Patersons Travelling Dictionary were to be entered as his sole property, and that the Dictionary of the World was the property of Stanley Crowder, Benjamin Collins, Mr Carnan and Mr Newbery, 20 Dec 1771, with a note requesting to know what shares each of the latter had in the Dictionary of the World, undated [2 items].

x: manuscript summons to Joseph Greenhill requiring him to produce information on the Dictionary of Natural History, The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland and Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets to the Guildhall Police Court, Jul 1861.

xi: statement that Regula Accentum & Spiritum Gracorum cum Observationibus utilissimus, Gracorum Dialiecti Postica cum Regulis Profodia and Eradita Pronuntiationis Catholici Indices were to be entered, 1 Oct 1700.

xii: certificates of entry of One Hundred Years of Book Auctions, issued to celebrate the centenary of Hodgson & Co in 1907, 2-3 Jun 1908.

• English

• Latin

A microfilm copy is on reel 100, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)

Registers of entry of copies [TSC/E/06]

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