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Core documents for Britain

1518: The Articles of the Pope's Bulle

1538: Henrician Proclamation

1553: Totell's Printing Patent

1557: Stationers' Charter

1559: Elizabethan Injunctions

1559: Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass

1566: Star Chamber Decree

1586: Star Chamber Decree

1624: Statute of Monopolies

1637: Star Chamber Decree

1643: The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

1662: Licensing Act

1667: Milton's Contract

1690: Locke's Second Treatise on Government (selected extracts)

1704: Defoe's Essay on the Press

1710: Statute of Anne

1721: Burnet v. Chetwood

1735: Engravers' Copyright Act

1737: Booksellers' Bill

1737: Baller v. Watson: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders

1741: Gyles v. Wilcox (Atkyn's Reports)

1741: Pope v. Curl

1747: Warburton's Letter from an Author

1762: Tonson v. Collins

1762: An Enquiry into Literary Property

1769: Millar v. Taylor

1773: Hinton v. Donaldson

1774: Donaldson v. Becket

1775: Stationers' Company v. Carnan

1777: Bach v. Longman

1787: Calico Printers' Act

1798: Models and Busts Act

1798: Beckford v. Hood

1801: Copyright Act

1814: Copyright Act

1828: Maugham's Treatise

1833: Dramatic Literary Property Act

1835: Publication of Lectures Act

1838: International Copyright Act

1842: Copyright Act

1842: Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright

1844: International Copyright Act

1847: Foreign Reprints Act

1852: International Copyright Act

1854: Jeffreys v. Boosey

1862: Fine Art Copyright Act

1870: Copinger's Law of Copyright

1878: Royal Commissioners' Report

1886: International Copyright Act

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