PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade, Paris (1618)

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: Mss. Fr. 22061 n°69

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Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian book trade, Paris (1618), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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TO THE KING,
A REMONSTRANCE MOST
HUMBLE FROM THE MERCHANT
Booksellers & Printers of your
good town, City & University
of Paris.


      Sir,

Amongst the Estates of your Kingdom,
the Printing of Books has been found to be
one of the most useful and necessary, & for this reason the
supplicants have always been favoured with fine privileges
& immunities, so that they might be distinguished from the
mechanical arts. However, it has come to pass that the good
order which one could previously observe there has turned
into corruption, & that several abuses and confusions have
crept into [the book trade], regarding which your Royal
predecessors have issued ordinances & Regulations – including the late King
Charles [IX], the latter by the Edict of 1571 on the general
reformation of Printing, & by the Letters Patent of his
Declaration on the same, which over several years
were upheld quite well, to the satisfaction and benefit [utilité]
of your subjects. But the malice of several

    

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