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Information for Alexander Donaldson, Edinburgh (1773)

Source:
British Library: 515.f.15(2*)

Citation:
Information for Alexander Donaldson (1773), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Record-ID:
uk_1773b

Full title
Hinton v. Donaldson: Information for Alexander Donaldson and John Wood

Full title original language
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Abstract
This document is associated with the following core document: uk_1773

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Location
Edinburgh

Year
1773

Language
English

Source
British Library: 515.f.15(2*)

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Persons referred to
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759)
Anderson, Andrew (fl.1671)
Anne (1665-1714)
Atticus, Titus Pomponius (110 B.C.-32 B.C.)
Austin, Elisabeth (fl.1752)
Austin, Stephen (d.1750)
Bellenden, John (d.1587)
Bennet, Robert (fl.1700)
Boece, Hector (c.1465-1536)
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount (1678-1751)
Brown, George (d.1776)
Brown, Thomas (fl.1722)
Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)
Campbell, Ilay (1734-1823)
Capra, Baldessar (1580-1626)
Caxton, William (c.1424-c.1492)
Chapman, Walter (fl.1528)
Charles IX (1550-1574)
Charles II (1630-1685)
Charteris, Henry (d.1599)
Colbert, Jean Baptiste (1619-1683)
Collins, Benjamin (fl.1746-1759)
Condell, Henry (d.1627)
Cooper, Thomas (c.1517-1594)
Craig, Sir Thomas (c.1538-1608)
Croke, Sir George (1560-1642)
Davidson, Thomas (fl.1525-1540)
Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Donaldson, Alexander (1727-1794)
Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Elphinstone, William (1431-1514)
Elyot, Sir Thomas (c.1490-1546)
Falconer, Alexander (1593/94-1671)
Faulkner, George (c.1703-1775)
Forbes, William (fl.1703)
Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
George II (1683-1760)
Gibson, Sir Alexander (d.1644)
Gilmour, Sir John (1605-1671)
Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645)
Hanmer, Sir Thomas (1677-1746)
Harrison, John (1693-1776)
Hawkesworth, John (c.1715-1773)
Hemings, John (c.1556-1630)
Henry II (1133-1189)
Henry IV (1367-1413)
Hinton, John (d.1781)
Hogarth, Jane (c.1709-1789)
Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
Holyoak, Francis (fl.1612-1635)
Hume, David (1711-1776)
James V (1512-1542)
James I (1566-1625)
James II (1633-1701)
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)
Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis (c.55-c.140)
Locke, John (1632-1704)
Lindsay, Sir David of the Mount (c.1486-1555)
Macdowall, Andrew (1685-1760)
Mackenzie, Sir George (1636/38-1691)
Macklin, Charles (c.1697-1797)
McKonochie, Alexander (fl.1773)
Mair, John (fl.1741)
Maittaire, Michael (1668-1747)
Mallet, David (c.1705-1765)
Marius, Simon (1570-1624)
Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis (c.40-c.104)
Mary I (1516-1558)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)
Meurose, James (fl.1760-1770)
Midwinter, Daniel (fl.1705-1746)
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Mortlock, Henry (fl.1675-1709)
Mosman, George (fl.1697)
Napier, John (1550-1617)
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)
Newton, Thomas (1704-1782)
Nisbet, Sir John (1610-1688)
Partridge, John (c.1644-c.1714)
Philip II (1527-1598)
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Postlethwayt, Malachy (c.1707-1767)
Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von (1632-94)
Pulteney, William (1684-1764)
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554-1618)
Reid, John (fl.1680)
Rolle, Henry (1589-1656)
Rolt, Richard (1724-1770)
Roper, Abel (fl.1672)
Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Ruddiman, Barbara (d.1710)
Ruddiman, Thomas (1674-1757)
Rymer, Thomas (1641-1713)
Savary, Jacques (1622-1690)
Savary, Jacques des Bruslons (1657-1716)
Savary, Louis-Philémon (1654-1727)
Saxton, Christopher (c.1543-c.1611)
Scott, John (fl.1553)
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Smythe, Sir Sidney Stafford (1705-1778)
Spenser, Edmund (c.1552-1599)
Stackhouse, Rev. Thomas (1681/82-1752)
Stair, James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount (1619-1695)
Statius, Publius Papinius (c.45-96)
Stewart, Prince James Francis Edward (1688-1766)
Stuart, Sir James (1635-1713)
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Terence (c.190 B.C.-159 B.C.)
Theobald, Lewis (1688-1744)
Turner, William (fl.1631)
Viner, Charles (1678-1756)
Voet, Johannes (1647-1713)
Voet, Paulus (1619-1677)
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778)
Warburton, William (1698-1779)
Watson, James (fl.1713-1737)
Webb, John (1611-1672)
Wood, John (fl.1760-1770)
Wortley Montagu, Sir Edward (1678-1761)
Young, Edward (1683-1765)

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Aberdeen
America
Berkshire
Edinburgh
England
Europe
Germany
Glasgow
London
Netherlands
Orkney Islands
Oxford
Padua
Putney
Salisbury
Scotland
Surrey
Westminster

Places referred to in commentary
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Legislation referred to
Henrician Proclamation 1538
Statute, James V, 1540, c.127
Statute, Mary, 1551, c.27
An Act touching letters patent, 1555, 1 & 2 Philip & Mary, c.1
Licensing Act, 1662, 13 & 14 Car.II, c.33
Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19
Engravers' Copyright Act, 1735, 8 Geo.II, c.13
Engravers' Copyright Act, 1766, 7 Geo.III, c.38

Legislation referred to in commentary
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Cases referred to
Galileo v. Capra (1607)
The Stationers v. The Patentees about the printing of Rolle's Abridgment (1666) Cart. 89
Stationers' Company v. Leigh (1681) 34 & 35 Car.II Snow. 258; 2 Ch. Cas. 66
Stationers' Company v. Wright (1681)
Stationers' Company v. Partridge (1709) 11 Ann. (King's Bench); 10 Mod. 105
Knaplock v. Curl (1722) NA, c.11 690
Motte v. Faulkner (1735) NA, c.11 2249/4
Eyre v. Walker (1735) NA, c.11 1520/29
Walthoe v. Walker (1736) NA, c.11 1534/62
Baller v. Watson (1737)
Pope v. Curl (1741) 2 Atk. 342
Forester v. Walker (1741) NA, c.11 867/54
Midwinter v. Hamilton (1743-1748)
Duke of Queensbury v. Shebbeare (1758) 2 Eden 329
Millar v. Donaldson (1765)
Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303

Cases referred to in commentary
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Institutions referred to
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Court of Chancery
Court of King's Bench
Court of St James
Court of Sessions, Scotland
Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh
House of Lords
Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers
Privy Council
Public Library, Cambridge
Royal Library
See of Canterbury
See of York
Sion College, London
Star Chamber
Stationers' Company
Stationers' Hall
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
University of Padua

Institutions referred to in commentary
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Key words
authorship, legal concept of
books, protected subject matter
common law copyright
inventors
monopoly
originality
printing, history of
privileges, French
privileges, German Imperial
privileges, printing
property theory

Responsible editor
Ronan Deazley




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