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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

1618:   Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England

1624: * Statute of Monopolies

1637: * Star Chamber Decree

1643: * The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company

1643:   An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing

1644:   Milton's Areopagitica

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