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•O* International Copyright. On December...
but I can I onl believe y guess I can the guess effect it of prett the y new closel law y . ;
either As regards American authors or , I Eng do lish not mean need loo that k they for a ,
• udden great increase of their , income . I am a little nervous about possible inundation of
the book market . Some time ago I abandoned the publication of American fictionbeing
driven A . thereto by the ruinous competition , of cheap reprints of foreign works . Whenever
unopened we received accompanie ¦ such manuscri d by pt we circula returned r le _ tter it
fiction informi J ^ " ng and , the author inviting that him " «* we io do wri no te t publish to the
representative , of his district in Congress , urg ing t- > him to suppor —X X t a cop y rigOht measure .
When the Bill becomes law I suppose these hundreds of authors will return to me their
stories . What can I do ? I think the Bill will cause rapprochement between British and American publishersredounding to the benefit
of both . There will , be planning among them will for the help control authors of publ the ishers larger markets the reading , which
public . The authors , will . receive , .. higher remuneration and do better workbecause they
can devote more time to preparing , their manuscript . Publishers will sell a thousand
pub books lic w will here ge th t those ey now books sell a at hundred a reduced , and price the .
Publications of all kinds will be better executed . Nowadays , most of the cheap work
produce to hurry d th e onl produc y hal t ion done in , and order we to are bea obli t the pirateswho depend upon our judgment and
try M . to get , on the JL market X with our v wares G ? before we are able to do so . The new law will stop
this scrambling .
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1604 The Publishers' Circular Dec . 15 , 1890
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The tion , Exhibition which is being of Art organised , Industry in , and connection
Inveno wi pened th the by week Sir John ly journal Lubbock Work , M , . P is ., to chair be
man Polytechnic of the London Institution County Regent Counc Street il , at the on
December 29 . This exhibition , will bring , together an exceedingly interesting collection of
ar and ticles will made illustrate by pro in fessionals a marked and amat manner eurs , very
how entirely a man ' s hobby may differ from the occupation in which he is engaged . Thus
a letter-carrier will send an exhibit in shoe- , making , a weaving overlooker will contribute
a medical tice coil will and forward * battery a , cabinet a bookbinder in fret ' s - appren JL JL
work will , exhibit a member a pair of the of netted London curtains Salvage table Corps
cloth * The , Charge and woo of llen . the Li shawl ght Bri , a gade care ' t in aker coloured , sends
needlework send a wor , k a seaman mode an l d locomo dock labourer tiveand will
lost solicitor the will fingers send of a one banjo hand . A , por has ter y , , et having been
able to make a series of five needlework p 4- ictures in coloured wool , ' not for sale . '
In musical instruments there are at least some distinct novelties—a pianomade by a
moulder in an iron foundry JL from , the
in-Btructions appearing m Work ; a violin , the
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breast of which is made from wood that has been seasoned for over 100 years . A
chromatic double-slide trumpet is a distinct achievement , and permits of playing , as written
any in any other key key , a p and iece prov as thoug ides a h means transposed of ¦ accom into
panimen v t to the , human JL voice , string bands , or military brass bands , without other trouble
than changing a crook . This will be the first exhibition ever held where the exhibits will be judged comparatively—that is to say ,
into where consideration any distinction the w facilities ill be made of , the taking exhibitor as amateurapprenticeor
journeyman ; where his technical , 'XX shortcomings , as an 1 amateur , his want of theoretical knowledge
as will be appren fairl tice wei , and hed all and other due circumstance allowance s y g ,
made . Perhaps no finer collection of fretwork was ever brought together—even por- » traiture being attempted by some ambitious
amateurs—and every conceivable variety of this fashionable amusement has its counterfeit presentment in the catalogue .
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Wilkinson On Saturday & Hod , the 6 conc th inst luded ., Messrs at their . Sotheb rooms y , ge
Wellington Street , Strand , the sale of several , private libraries , including a number of first
boo editions ks , and of Moliere the library ' s wor of ks , the impor late tan Mr t F . renc John h
G mos regory t of his Crace books , who to , however the British , bequea Museum thed . The most noticeable prices were as follows :
— ' Premier Etablissement de la Foy dans la Nouvelle France' 2 vols . large folding
map , Paris , 1691 , , rare— £ 16 , . 15 s . ; Beaumarchais , * La Folle Journe ' e , ou le Mariage
de Quen F t igaro in in , ' four large stat paper es , Paris , wi , t 178 h p 5— lates £ 14 of . 15 St s . . ;
De Favre ' s * Les Quatre Heures de la Toilette des Dames / plates 1779— £ 10 . 10 s . ; La
Fontaine ' s ' Contes 7 X et , Nouvelles - ' / the Fermiers-G 6 n 6 raux edition , with the suppressed plates
p — la— £ tes 26 . P 10 aris s . ; 1682 Moliere — £ 16 ' s ; t ' Works Montesquieu — / 8 vols 4 Le .,
i emple - , , de Gnide , ^ / with medal por ^ trait , of Montesquieu and plates by Eisen— £ 10 . 10 s . ;
first edition X of Goldsmith X ' s ' Deserted Village ' — £ 5 . 10 s . ; John Keats' ' Endymion / first
liver edition ' s — Travels £ 6 . 16 / s . and ; Jonathan the continuation Swift's , * Gul firs - t
edi £ 12 t . ions 10 s , . ; the ' Aberdeen six par Horn ts paged Book ' separa ( an A tel B y C — )>
in in black Aberdeen letter , , 1 625 good , curious preservation and , pri rare nted
—M £ 26 elanc . 10 h s . ( / Bain firs ) t ; edition Burton ' wi s th « Anatomy rare leaf of of
errata— £ 22 y . 10 s . ; ' The Poeticall , Essayes of Sam Danyel / rare , quarto , 1599— £ 23 ;
Davenant Rutland ( Sir House W . ) ' / First 1657 Day unknown ' s Entertainment to Lowndes at
— £ 9 . 5 s . ; Thomas Gray , ' s ' Poems / first edition , with two contemporary portraits
inserted—£ Heros 12 ; ' au La Palais Voye d © de la Laict Gloire , ou ouvert le Chemin a l ' entr des ^
e de Louis XIII . en la Cite" d'Avignon / portrait
and plates , unknown to Brunet and Grasse * — i
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1890, page 1604, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121890/page/14/
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