1479* | Privilege of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1485 | Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz (Germany) |
1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1511 | Privilege of the Bishop of Strasbourg (Germany) |
1513* | Imperial privilege for Eucharius Rösslin (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1518* | The Articles of the Pope's Bulle (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1525 | Luther's 'Admonition to the Printers' (Germany) |
1534 | Privilege of the Elector of Saxony (Germany) |
1538* | Henrician Proclamation (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1545* | Luther's 'Warning to the Printers' (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1547* | French Censorship Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1553* | Totell's Printing Patent (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1553 | William Seres' Printing Patent (United Kingdom) |
1554 | Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom) |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1558* | Censorship Rules (Spain) |
1558 | Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' (United Kingdom) |
1559* | Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559 | Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters (United Kingdom) |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1649 | Book trade regulations (France) |
1650s* | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (France) |
1657 | Preface to Silesius's Chant Book (Germany) |
1662* | Licensing Act (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1665* | French book trade regulations (France) |
1686* | Book trade regulations (France) |
1690s* | Memorandum on the dispute between the Parisian and the provincial booksellers (France) Commentary: [1] |
1709 | Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons (United Kingdom) |
1713 | Augsburg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1752* | Juan Curiel as Censor (Spain) |
1775* | Stationers' Company v. Carnan (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1778* | Pluquet's letters (France) Commentary: [1] |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1841* | Report of Lamartine and parliamentary debates on literary property (France) |
1868* | Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (France) |