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Mr. S. E. Dawson, Of Montreal, On Copyri...
— 2 nd . Let not any less printer than 500 intending at once— to and reprint forward a copyr them ight to book the Inland print off Revenue the title- Offic page e first of his — let him state the of the author and of the book
| I reprinted province ; , and the price he intends name to publish at . publisher to be j 3 rdLet the printer send with the title-pages a cheque for ten per cent , upon the retail i
. 4 th . The price Department of the number will then of books stamp for with which an he impressed has printed stamp title on -pages the . number of title— I
pages and nnrl will will required remit remit for tne the the money monev proposed to to , tne the issue Boar Jtfoard , a certificate d ot of Trade Trade of in in the ijonaon London , payment tor for of the the the royalty owner nwnor' ' I f I f
s account . I One obvious objection to this plan is that the repriiiter would frequently not know who
j the The . _ owner owner is m is , and very ^ therefore . * frequentl m could y not ^ not ¦ the advise T author ¦ the ^ , Board TV and with of m Trade anonymous * l to » whom ^ books to I pay the the at difficulty royalt y . | ¦
would be increased . How is the Board of Trade to ferret this out ? : It will be seen that Mr . Dawson suggests 10 per cent . not 12 £ percent . as the royalty . To !
those who are interested in the whole question of copyright , in books Mr . Dawson , ' s little pamphlet ' ¦ can ^¦^ ^^ ^^ be i ^ mi— ^^» - ¦ well » - ^^ ^^ ^ recommended ^ - ^» r ^^^ - ^^ - ¦— ^^ ^—— — — — - — — — — — — as ~ — — a — — brief — - and ~ - lucid — — survey ___ of _ the _ whole question H — — . Mr — — — . ^ Dawson ^^^^ ™^^ ' W ^ J ^^ r ^ L ^ L
concludes by quoting the remark of a Minister of State in England to a deputation about copyright . ' Gentlemen , ' said he , * before you commenced I thought I knew a little about
copyright ; now I know I never did know anything about it ; and , what is more , I never shall ! * Let us hope that a perusal of Mr . Dawson ' s pamphlet will not have the same effect ! on his readers .
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656 The Publishers' Circular AuCTst 1 , i 882 j .
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11 appears from the report of the British Museum that the Library is daily growing in value . A detailed account of Central Asiawritten in Chineseand comprised in twenty-eight
volumes , was added during the past year , . A collection of , early German Bibles has fceen ! acquired , including several older than Luther ' s , which was formerly supposed to be . the first
in character Mb the language of Atossa . A ( mong the »^* Duchess the Eng wt of lish i Marlborough books ' ^»* 1 —¦ is a ) copy for of the Pope suppression ' s Epistles of , which in which it is appears said Pope the
received ^^ r ^ v v ^^ r ^ n v ^^ p ^^^ ^ r ^^ ^ " ^ £ ^*^ 1 ^ ^ fc , 000 ^ ^^™ *^ ~ . »^^ v ^^ ^^^^» A ^^ French . ^^^ ^^^^^ ^*^ m ~^^ ^ t ^™ ranslation ~^^ w ^^ - ^* - ^^ - ^^^ — ^—^^ ' ^^^" ^^ " of - ™^»^ Dr — . ^^^ b Johnson ^ w , ^ m — ¦ ' s ^^ ' Ilasselas — M ^ ^^ ^^ — — ' contain ^^ — ^^ s , ^— written — — — — by ^^^^ the ^^ b "^ ^^ translatora comparison between this work and Voltaire ' s * Candide' about as singular a
parallel as , could be imagined . Among the manuscripts and documents , acquired are : —The * Final Concord relating to Property at Stratford-on-Avonand elsewhereformerly belonging
to William Shakespeare , 1650 ' ; the Journal of the Surgeon , who accompanied , Captain Cook in his famous voyage to the South Seas ; and six volumes of Gilbert White ' s Naturalist ' s
Journal , in addition to fourteen letters from the genial incumbent of Selborne to the Hon .
Dames Barrington between 1769 and 1773 .
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Of Richte these r ' a publication the most valuable will be are illustrated preserved by in 220 the such Royal original Libra drawings ry at Windsor in p hoto-engravings . J ^ - ( book Dujardin has ' been s process started ) and by about the Royal 450 other Academy facsimile of Arts reproductions , London . with Th a © grant subscri of £ p 100 tion , connois and for the by
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1882, page 656, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081882/page/4/
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