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Decree on Engravings, Paris (1660)

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22119 n°21

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Decree on Engravings, Paris (1660), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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DECREE
OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE.

THAT UPHOLDS AND KEEPS THE ART
of Printmaking, by engraving and by
etching, and by any other means possible,
and those who make it their profession, both Natives (Regnicoles)
and Foreigners, in the state of freedom that they have always
enjoyed and exercised in the Kingdom, without it being possible
for them to be curtailed in it by Guild, Incorporation,
nor any other Rule or Control, in the
name of whomsoever.

Of the 26. May 1660.
EXTRACT FROM THE REGISTERS
of the Council of State.

      THE KING having had set before him at his Council
the Decree it made on the seventh of February
last, by which His Majesty had returned the Petition
which had been presented to him by the Sieur de Lavenage,
for the establishment and constitution of two hundred Master
Printmakers, engravers and etchers, Prin-

    

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