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1518 : * The Articles of the Pope's Bulle

1538 : * Henrician Proclamation

1553 : * Totell's Printing Patent

1553 :   William Seres' Printing Patent

1553 :   John Day's Privilege for the Catechism

1554 :   Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers

1557 : * Stationers' Charter

1557 :   The Privy Seal warrant concerning the Stationers' Charter

1558 :   Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine'

1558 :   Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid

1559 : * Elizabethan Injunctions

1559 :   Day's The Cosmographical Glass

1559 : * Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass

1559 :   Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books

1559 :   Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters

1559 :   Totell's patent for Common Law Books

1566 : * Star Chamber Decree

1586 : * Star Chamber Decree

1624 : * Statute of Monopolies

1637 : * Star Chamber Decree

1643 : * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

1643 :   An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing

1647 :   Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets

1649 :   An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets

1653 :   An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act]

1662 : * Licensing Act

1662 :   Licensing Act (parchment copy)

1663 :   L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals

1667 : * Milton's Contract

1667 :   Recital of the Stationers' Charter

1684 :   Stationers' Charter

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

1693 :   Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act

1695 :   Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act

1704 : * Defoe's Essay on the Press

1706 :   Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning

1709 :   Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning

1709 :   More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning

1709 :   Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons

1710 : * Statute of Anne

1710 :   A Bill for Encouragement of Learning

1721 : * Burnet v. Chetwood

1721 :   Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer

1721 :   Burnet v. Chetwood: Entries from the Court's Book of Orders

1729 :   Gay v. Read

1735 : * Engravers' Copyright Act

1735 :   The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c.

1735 :   Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy)

1737 : * Booksellers' Bill

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

1737 :   An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft)

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

1741 : * Pope v. Curl

1741 :   Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report)

1741 :   Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer

1741 :   Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders

1747 : * Warburton's Letter from an Author

1751 :   Tonson v. Walker

1761 :   Tonson v. Collins

1762 : * Tonson v. Collins

1762 : * An Enquiry into Literary Property

1762 :   A Vindication of the Rights of Authors

1766 :   Engravers' Copyright Act

1766 :   Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts)

1769 : * Millar v. Taylor

1773 : * Hinton v. Donaldson

1773 :   Information for Messrs John Hinton et al

1773 :   Information for Alexander Donaldson

1774 : * Donaldson v. Becket

1774 :   Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property

1774 :   The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents

1774 :   The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House

1774 :   Booksellers' Bill

1774 :   Enfield's Observations

1774 :   Macauley's A Modest Plea

1774 :   Stella's Modest Exceptions

1775 : * Stationers' Company v. Carnan

1777 : * Bach v. Longman

1777 :   Engravers' Copyright Act

1787 : * Calico Printers' Act

1787 :   Calico Printers' Act (parchment copy)

1798 : * Models and Busts Act

1798 : * Beckford v. Hood

1798 :   Models and Busts Act (parchment copy)

1799 :   Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act

1801 : * Copyright Act

1801 :   A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning

1801 :   Copyright Act (parchment copy)

1812 :   Petition of the London Booksellers

1813 :   Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster

1813 :   Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers

1813 :   Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright

1813 :   Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning

1813 :   Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1814 : * Copyright Act

1814 :   Sculpture Copyright Act

1814 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May)

1814 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May)

1814 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July)

1814 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July)

1814 :   Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May)

1814 :   Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June)

1814 :   Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July)

1814 :   Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July)

1818 :   Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts

1818 :   Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence

1828 : * Maugham's Treatise

1830 :   Dramatic Writings Bill

1832 :   Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature

1832 :   Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May)

1833 : * Dramatic Literary Property Act

1833 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March)

1833 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (24 July)

1833 :   Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property

1835 : * Publication of Lectures Act

1835 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.)

1835 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (26 Aug.)

1835 :   Publication of Lectures Bill

1836 :   Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act

1837 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.)

1837 :   Copyright Bill (6 June)

1838 : * International Copyright Act

1838 :   Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March)

1838 :   Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July)

1838 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April)

1838 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May)

1838 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June)

1838 :   Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1838 :   Copyright Bill (6 June)

1839 :   Copyright Bill

1839 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1839 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May)

1839 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 July)

1840 :   Copyright Bill

1840 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.)

1840 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.)

1840 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (8 July)

1841 :   Copyright Bill

1841 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.)

1841 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.)

1841 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.)

1842 : * Copyright Act

1842 : * Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright

1842 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.)

1842 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (21 Feb.)

1842 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.)

1842 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.)

1842 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (23 Mar.)

1842 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April)

1842 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April)

1842 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May)

1842 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May)

1842 :   Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March)

1842 :   Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March)

1842 :   Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April)

1842 :   Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (27 June)

1844 : * International Copyright Act

1844 :   International Copyright Bill

1847 : * Foreign Reprints Act

1847 :   Foreign Reprints Bill

1851 :   Anglo-French Copyright Treaty

1852 : * International Copyright Act

1852 :   Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.)

1852 :   Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April)

1853 :   Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright

1854 : * Jeffreys v. Boosey

1857 :   Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints

1858 :   Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee

1861 :   Fine Art Copyright Bill

1861 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May)

1862 : * Fine Art Copyright Act

1862 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.)

1862 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (6 March)

1862 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March)

1862 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (31 March)

1862 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May)

1862 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May)

1862 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June)

1862 :   Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (24 July)

1862 :   Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.)

1862 :   Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March)

1870 : * Copinger's Law of Copyright

1872 :   Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright

1874 :   Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright

1878 : * Royal Commissioners' Report

1878 :   Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence

1879 :   Copyright Consolidation Bill

1886 : * International Copyright Act

1886 :   International Copyright Bill

1886 :   Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union

1886 :   Berne Convention

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