Dossier 03 - Printing and copyright Acts

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GB 2156 TSC/A/01/03/03

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Printing and copyright Acts

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  • 1637-1842 (Création/Production)

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2 folders

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Contains the following Acts and commentaries (mostly print):

  • Appendix to A Decree of Starre-Chamber Concerning Printing made the eleventh Day of July last past, 1637

  • Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets, and for better Regulating of Printing, 1649

  • An act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets, 1662

  • An act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets, 1685

  • 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)

  • An act to amend the law of copyright, 1842

  • Stamp Acts, 1757 and 1765

  • Restraint against co-printing law books (manuscript, no date)

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Bill for making more effectual... An act to enable to commissioners of His Majesty's stamp duties, 1735

  • Legal Deposit Act, 1775 (two copies)

  • An Act to enable to commissioners of His Majesty's stamp duties to stamp the paper of newspapers, 1794

  • An Act for repealing the Duties on Paper, 1794

  • An act from granting Samuel Buckley the sole liberty of printing and reprinting the histories of Thuanus, 1733

  • Acts for prohibiting the Importation of Books re-printed Abroad, 1739 and 1746

  • An Act for the further Encouragement of Learning, 1801

  • Copyright Bill, 1881

Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

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Langue des documents

  • anglais

Écriture des documents

  • latin

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Microfilm copies are on reel 97, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)

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Documents sent to NCS on 27.02.2017 for pre-scanning treatment and returned 25.07.2017.

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Series I. A. 1

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