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Acknowledgements

This project would not have been possible without the cooperation of more than seventy libraries and archives. The editors wish to thank specifically:

Cambridge University
The British Library
The Parliamentary Archive
The National Archive
The Stationers Company
The Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque municipale de Beaune
Archives nationales, Paris
Bibliothèque Universitaire de Poitiers
Bibliothèque Cujas
Venetian State Archives
The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice
The Papal Archive
Archives of Maryland
University of North Carolina Katherine R. Everett Law Library
The University of Texas School of Law Library Tarlton Law Library
The National Archives
National Archives, Kew
Library of Congress
The University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library
Massachusetts Archives
Connecticut State Library
Rhode Island State Archives
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library, Rare Book Collection
The Library of Michigan, an agency of the Dept. of History, Arts and Libraries
United States Copyright Office
Morristown National Historic Park, Lloyd W. Smith Archival Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Pierpont Morgan Library
Harry Ransom Centre
American Antiquarian Society
The University of Texas Centre for American History
Boston Athenaeum
The University of Colorado - Boulder
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Cummings Bill
Cambridge University Library
Stationers' Hall
Durham University Library
UK Parliamentary Archives
University of Birmingham Library
National Editor's personal collection
Lincolns Inn Library
Proquest: Parliamentary Papers
Squire Law Library, Cambridge University
Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
Stadtarchiv Iphofen
Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart
Marienbibliothek Halle
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen
Universitätsbibliothek, Freie Universität Berlin
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha Mon.
Staatsarchiv of Basel-Stadt
Universität Freiburg, Institut für Rechtsgeschichte
Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt a. M
Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Kirchenbibliothek Neustadt/Aisch
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
Private Collection
Augsburg Staats- und Stadtbibliothek
Universitätsbibliothek Freie Universität Berlin
Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek
Archiv für Geschichte des Deutschen Buchhandels
Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte
Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
German Literature Archive (DLA) Schiller National Museum in Marbach
Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
Stadtarchiv Villingen-Schwenningen
Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin
Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig
Universitätsbibliothek Basel
Wienbibliothek


Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK


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