1474* | Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1518* | The Articles of the Pope's Bulle (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1531* | Basel Printers' Statute (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1545* | Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1549* | Decree Establishing the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1549* | Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Italy) |
1553* | Totell's Printing Patent (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1557* | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1596* | Motu proprio controversy (Italy) |
1598 | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1603* | Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints (Italy) |
1618* | Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1643* | The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1649 | Book trade regulations (France) |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1653 | An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] (United Kingdom) |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1663 | L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom) |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1684 | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
1690 | Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1713 | Augsburg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Pierre-Jacques Blondel's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1744* | Code de la Librairie (France) Commentary: [1] |
1762* | Royal declaration on privileges granted to inventors (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Rules for Printers and Book Merchants' Guild in Madrid (Spain) |