PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Virgil (-70 - -19)

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Publius Vergilius Maro

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Roman poet

Referred to in records:
1501: Vergilius (Latin)
1503 * : Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon (Latin)
1558: Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid (English)
1590 * : Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books' (Italian)
1704 * : Defoe's Essay on the Press (English)
1763 * : Diderot's Letter on the book trade (French)
1773 * : Hinton v. Donaldson (English)
1773: Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (English)
1774: Stella's Modest Exceptions (English)
1777 * : Linguet's memorandum (French)
1778 * : Pluquet's letters (French)
1785: Imperial privilege for Aloysius Blumauer's Travesty of Virgil's 'Aeneid' (German)
1790-1800: Sample registrations (English)
1818: Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (English)
1832: Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature (English)
1834 * : Balzac's letter to authors (French)
1834: Letters from Sumner to Story (English)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (English)
1847 * : A Treatise on the Law of Copyright (English)
1868 * : Proudhon: 'Les Majorats littéraires' (French)
1870 * : Copinger's Law of Copyright (English)
1896: The Question of Copyright (English)

Referred to in commentaries about:
1501: Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica
1785: Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing
1486: Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege
1503: Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon
1517: Venetian Decree on Press Affairs
1559: Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass


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