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Crewe MS/21/ff. 28–9 · Partie · 20 July 1716
Fait partie de Crewe Manuscripts

The parties have undertaken to print ‘A Complete Collection of State Tryal Proceedings upon Impeachments, etc., for High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemenours from the Beginning of the Reign of King James the first to the End of the Reign of Queenread more

Crewe MS/21/ff. 21–5 · Partie · 18th c.
Fait partie de Crewe Manuscripts

A agrees to translate ‘with all the convenient speed from the Latin into English verse all the Eclogues Georgics and Eneid of Virgil and prepare them for the press with such notes preface or dedication as he shall think most fitting’. He agrees not toread more

Crewe MS/21/f. 5 · Partie · 20 Aug. 1718–21 Feb. 1719
Fait partie de Crewe Manuscripts

20 Aug. 1718. All accounts relating to the paper, print, etc., of the second volume in folio of Prideaux’s Connection and the second edition of the first volume in folio are today stated, and what was left of the former was equally divided. What was leftread more

Crewe MS/21/f. 4r · Partie · 24 Nov. 1707
Fait partie de Crewe Manuscripts

(i) Agrees to give Philips forty guineas for his poem Cyder, together with a certain number of copies of the book, and agrees terms for subsequent editions.

(ii) Acknowledges the receipt of ten guineas ‘in full of this note and all demands’.

Endorsed ‘read more

Crewe MS/21/f. 3r · Partie · 24 Jan. 1708
Fait partie de Crewe Manuscripts

Acknowledges the receipt of forty guineas for the copyright of a poem (by Philips) entitled Cyder, in two books. A memorandum by Tonson dated the same day records that ‘Mr Phillips is to have ten Guineas more upon a Second Edition’.

Crewe MS/21/f. 13 · Partie · 15 July 1714
Fait partie de Crewe Manuscripts

Acknowledges the receipt of £34 8s. for the copyright of his brother Abraham Stanyan’s ‘Account of Switzerland written in the Year 1714’, for which he promises to make a bill of sale when required.

Crewe MS/21/f. 12 · Partie · 11 Mar. 1723
Fait partie de Crewe Manuscripts

A having made some progress in translating the Memoires of the Cardinal de Retz, and B having purchased a complete translation of the same from another hand, B obliges himself to deliver to A fifty copies of the said translation in quires as soon as itread more

Crewe MS/21/f. 11 · Partie · 22 Apr. 1713
Fait partie de Crewe Manuscripts

A, as one of the representatives of Anne Moseley, daughter of Humphrey Moseley, late citizen and stationer of London, has an interest in the copyrights of ‘Priamus and Thisbe’, ‘Spencers Shepherds Calendar’, and other works, as recorded in the registerread more

Add. MS a/355/3/14 · Pièce · 29 Dec. 1926
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Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Comments on a passage about copyright.

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The Clarendon Press, Oxford
29 December, 1926.

Slips 40-1. Copyright.

The “trade” doctrine of perpetual copyright, in the 18C, is of some importance. Tonson claimed perpetualread more