| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...originally founded on no pretence but the necessity of notoriety, is now for the first time declared to be " for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the...purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." Not a syllable of conditions tacked to this just and liberal grant, which secured to men... | |
| 1819 - 596 pages
...mquisitorial restrictions on the press.' In the year 1 709, being the 8th of Queen Anne, an act was made ' for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the...purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.' The preamble to this law stated that printers, booksellers, and other persons had of late... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...inquisitorial restrictions on the press.' In the year 1 709, being the 8th of Queen Anne, an act was made ' for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the...purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.' The preamble to this law stated that printers, booksellers, and other persons had of late... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1813 - 716 pages
...and others, holders of Copy-Right, setting forth, " That, by an Act passed in the 8th of queen Anne, for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors and purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, the authors or proprietors of such... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1823 - 854 pages
...acts passed in the 8th year of queen Anne, and in the 1.5th and 41st years of his present majesty, for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the...books in the authors or purchasers of such copies, and for ether purposes therein mentioned; and to report whether any and what alterations are requisite... | |
| John Erskine - Law - 1824 - 602 pages
...the judgment of the House of Lords, thus: " That al" though, by the act of the 8th Anne, entitled, An act for the encouragement of " learning, by vesting...authors or purchasers of " such copies, during the terms therein mentioned, no person printing or reprinting «« any book without consent, as in the... | |
| 1828 - 746 pages
...multiply each book or copy to what quantity he pleases. “They also contended, that the act of Anne vests the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies during the times therein limited, but only during that limited time, and under the terms prescribed by the act. “There was... | |
| Great Britain - 1825 - 1228 pages
...Reign 3 Ann. e.19. of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of Learn- part of § l. in<r9 by vesting the Copies of printed Books in the Authors...Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned, as relates to the Import of Books without the Consent of the Proprietor ; — and also,... | |
| William Toone - 1826 - 668 pages
...regulate 'the' price *itt osslza of bread. Sal All act for the encouragement of learning, by vestingtlie copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies, during; the time therein mentioned: and other acts of less public importance. March 81. The allies signed a treaty... | |
| 1829 - 460 pages
...multiply each book or copy to what quantity he pleases. ' They also contended that the act of Anne vests the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies during the times therein limited, but only during; that limited time, and under the terms prescribed by the act. ' There was... | |
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