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j i6 9 s The Publishers' Circular Dec. 3...
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and Gilmour ' s " Among the Mongols . " It also includes the writings of Milton , Bunyan , and Fuller . The volumes are not only well printed , but they each contain from one to six illustrations . As to the success of the Library it is sufficient to say that since May last , of the thirteen volumes already issued more than a quarter of a million copies have been sold . This large sale and th ^ consequent influence exerted by the books seem to entitle the Library to a place in any impartial review of the year ' s cheap literature . ' Referring to copyright in Germany , Mr . C . A . Buchheim writes to the Athenoeum as ' follows : — ' It may be of , interest to your literary readers to know that the subject of what I would call "moral copyright" was discussed at the Schriftstellertag recently held at Eisenach , and that the following resolutions were adopted : — * 1 . The publisher is not allowed to make any alterations whatever in a work he has bought , without the consent of the author . ' 2 . In case a publisher has reserved to himself the right of making alterations , he shall have forfeited the right of retaining the author ' s name , in case the alterations carried out injure the character of the book . know 'As very a rule well Eng how lish to guard authors their , fortunatel interests y , , but as there are publishers—here as well as in other countries—who believe that with the acquisition of the pecuniary copyright they have also acquired the right of doing with the author ' s intellectual property as they please , it occurred to me that it might be expedient to call special attention to the above resolutions . '
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J > alc Sotting ^ . An old library from Essex was recently dispersed at Puttick < fc Simpson's . The following were among the prices realised . The Caxton , of which wo print the auctioneers ' detailed description ( it is well that the few that turn up should be carefully chronicled ) , fetched £ 6 (> 5 ( Quaritch ) . ' " The Game and Playe of Chease . " The first edition of Caxtori ' s translation of "Tho Game and Playe of Chesse , " and the first book of Oaxton with a date . A perfect copy ( except the two blank 11 . ) . Of extraordinary rarity . This copy was unknown to Mr . Blades , who enumerates only four Library other in perfect the British copies Museum , the one being in the sli King ghtl y s I
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Continental H 5 ote £ * The seventh volume has just been published of Leopold von Ranke ' s 'Universal History / on which he was engaged at the time of his death . It has not yet been decided whether lished the material in the left form by of the lectures author as shall written be pub b - him , or bo worked up into two more volumes y schichte ( 8 and ' 9 ) down which to would the end bring of the the Medieval ' Weltgeperiod . Ranke is said to have also left behind him an autobiography . and will The it appear has new been work first sent in of the the to Budapest Hungarian Queen of for Rou language transla mania - tion . Carmen Sylva has collected tho historical traditions which she and has ballads revised of . Rournania The distinguished , some of authoress has taken her material from the These but old little chronicles known of , are Roumania rich in poetical , which treasures , though . the charming , as may setting bo supposed so artisticall , lose nothing elaborated by for them by Carmen Sylva . y A new work on Hungarian painters KeVai 0 Magyar Brothers Muve , ' szek of Budapest ' ) published , is b a y sp M lendid essrs .
volume containing choice specimens of the best productions of the painters of Hungary . A icture mongs of t th John em we Milton find dictating Munkacsy to ' s his well daug -known hter , and p other striking subjects by the same celebrated artist . The book is most tastefully got up and reflects the greatest credit on ail concern ed in its production . It may be obtained m London at Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . V As a curious circumstance in connection with Brockhaus' ' Conversations-Lexikon , ' to which we referred in our last , it may be stated that the fifteenth volume , published last month , closes with the biography of General Uhrich , the defender of Strassburg in the last war between France and Germany , and that the news of the General ' s death , which occurred on October 9 , arrived at Leipzig as the sheet was passing through the press . In the December number of the Bibliographies de la France has appeared a biographical sketch of the late Ambroise Firmin-Didot from the pen of M . H . Wallon , Member of the Institute of France , in which M . Wallon traces the career of the great printer and publisher . It is full of interest . We have received Giegler ' s c Journal Katalog ' for 1887 . This is a most useful aid to all interested in German periodical literature and comprises no less than 1 , 400 of the principal periodicals of Germany , giving their titles at full length , size , prices , and publisher . An admirably classified index adds to the usefulness of this industriously compiled catalogue . Herr Carl Ricker , the well-known and respected St . Petersburg bookseller , celebrated on the 29 th inst . the 25 th anniversary of the foundation of his business , and received the congratulations of his numerous friends in all parts of Europe . The Paris correspondent of the Daily News writes : 'The Foreign Library , ' a publishing and importing house of great importance at St . Petersburg , has been bought by a syndicate of great Paris booksellers and publishers formed of MM . Buloz ( Revue des Ueux-Moiides ) , Plon , Calmann Levy , and Firmin Didot .
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j i 6 9 s The Publishers' Circular Dec . 31 , 1886
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1886, page 1698, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121886/page/10/
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