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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