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Sample registrations, various states (1790-1800)
Source: Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections: Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts records; National Archives, Atlanta Facility: North Carolina records; National Archives, Northeast Facility: Vermont records.
Citation:
Sample registrations, various states (1790-1800), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as pro-
prietor, in the words following to wit: "The Con-
trast, a Comedy: in five acts: written by a citizen
of the United States; performed with applause
at the Theatres in New York, Philadelphia and
Maryland; and published/under an assignment
of the copy-right/by Thomas Wignell.
Primus ego in patriam
Aonio - deduci vertice musas.
Virgil.*
(Imitated)
First on our shores I try Thalia's powers,
"And bid the laughing, useful maid be ours."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United
States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement
of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts
and Books, to the authors and proprietors of
such copies, during the time therein mentioned."
Sam Caldwell Clerk of the
District of Pennsylvania
_____________________________________________________
№. 3.
District of Pennsylvania, to wit
Be it remembered, that on the seventeenth day of
June, in the fourteenth year of the independence of the
United States of America, John Churchman, [XX]
[XXX] of the said district, hath deposited in this of-
fice, the title of a Book, and the title or dedication of a
Chart, the right whereof he claims as Author, the title
of the Book being on the words of following, to wit:
"An Explanation of the Magnetic Atlas,
or Variation Chart, hereunto announced; pro-
jection on a plan entirely new, by which the
Magnetic Variation on any part of the
Globe may be precisely determined, for any
time, past, present, or future: and the varia-
tion and latitude being accurately known,
_________
*) Lat. "I was the first, Aonio, to bring the Muses into our country" - an ironical
adaptation of some famous verses from Virgil's Georgics. These words
are spoken in the prologue of Royall Tyler's play "The Contrast" (1787).
Source: Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections: Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts records; National Archives, Atlanta Facility: North Carolina records; National Archives, Northeast Facility: Vermont records.
Citation:
Sample registrations, various states (1790-1800), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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No Translation available.
Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as pro-
prietor, in the words following to wit: "The Con-
trast, a Comedy: in five acts: written by a citizen
of the United States; performed with applause
at the Theatres in New York, Philadelphia and
Maryland; and published/under an assignment
of the copy-right/by Thomas Wignell.
Aonio - deduci vertice musas.
Virgil.*
(Imitated)
First on our shores I try Thalia's powers,
"And bid the laughing, useful maid be ours."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United
States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement
of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts
and Books, to the authors and proprietors of
such copies, during the time therein mentioned."
Sam Caldwell Clerk of the
District of Pennsylvania
_____________________________________________________
District of Pennsylvania, to wit
Be it remembered, that on the seventeenth day of
June, in the fourteenth year of the independence of the
United States of America, John Churchman, [XX]
[XXX] of the said district, hath deposited in this of-
fice, the title of a Book, and the title or dedication of a
Chart, the right whereof he claims as Author, the title
of the Book being on the words of following, to wit:
"An Explanation of the Magnetic Atlas,
or Variation Chart, hereunto announced; pro-
jection on a plan entirely new, by which the
Magnetic Variation on any part of the
Globe may be precisely determined, for any
time, past, present, or future: and the varia-
tion and latitude being accurately known,
_________
*) Lat. "I was the first, Aonio, to bring the Muses into our country" - an ironical
adaptation of some famous verses from Virgil's Georgics. These words
are spoken in the prologue of Royall Tyler's play "The Contrast" (1787).