1469* | Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1477* | Tax Exemption for Books (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1479* | Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1485 | Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz (Germany) |
1487* | Printing Privileges to Monasteries (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1498* | Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1501 | Vergilius (Italy) |
1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1511* | Imperial Privilege for Albrecht Dürer (Germany) |
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* | Luther's 'Warning to the Printers' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1549* | Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers (Italy) |
1553* | Totell's Printing Patent (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1554* | Royal Charter for Licensing (Spain) Commentary: [1] |
1556 (1555 m.v.)* | Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1557* | Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1558* | Censorship Rules (Spain) |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1598 | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1618* | Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1643* | The Humble Remonstrance of the Stationers' Company (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1660* | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1672* | Usher's Printing Privilege (United States) Commentary: [1] |
1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1690 | Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1690 | Beier: On the Book Trade and its Privileges (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] |
1738* | Thurneysen: On the Illicit Reprinting of Books (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1761 | Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom) |
1762* | Free Trade Regulations (Spain) |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Rules for Printers and Book Merchants' Guild in Madrid (Spain) |
1769* | Millar v. Taylor (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1773 | Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom) |
1776* | Gaultier's memorandum for the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1826* | Minutes of the 1825-1826 Commission (France) |
1842* | Lowndes' Historical Sketch of the Law of Copyright (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |