PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

Printer Joachim Wielandt's Privilege for Popular Chapbooks, Denmark–Norway, Copenhagen (1721)

Source: Danish National Archives, Københavns Universitet, Konsistorium: Kopibog (1538-1882) 1213-09: 1712 9 - 1727 9 mm.

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Printer Joachim Wielandt's Privilege for Popular Chapbooks, Denmark–Norway, Copenhagen (1721), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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No. 26 is the King’s Law. We humbly recommend it to His Royal Majesty’s own will, whether or not Your Majesty will allow it to be replaced.

No. 27 and no. 31 are exactly the same book. It was printed in Danish only once, in 1624. So it seems that there was not much demand for it. It is, however, a readable little book.

No. 28 (whose author is rightly called Peder Claussen) is a good, useful book. It is to be hoped, however, that if it is to be re-issued with privileges, it will first have to be improved in several places, which will not be possible without diligent work and sufficient subsidies.

No. 29 is also a good book. But to publish it again so hastily would probably not be advantageous to the publisher, because here in town there is seldom a book auction where a copy is not to be found, and often it is at auction 5 or 6 or even 10 times, mostly since the death of the bookseller Christian Geertsen, who published it in large numbers.

No. 30 was recently printed by secretary Wielandt himself. We do not think that this book is very desirable, on the contrary,



    


Num. 26 er Kongeloven. Vi indstiller allerunderdanigst til eders Kongl. Majests. Egen villie, om Eders Majestet vil give tilladelse til at eftertrøcke den, eller icke.

Num. 27 og 31 er den helt same bog. Der er icke trøkt paa dansk uden en eniste gang, nemlig 1624. Synes sa at begierligheden der til haver icke været saa stor. Det er, for det øfrige en læsværdig liden bog.

Num. 28 (hvis Author med rette heder Peder Claussen) er en god nyttig bog. Det var ellers at ønske at hvis den paa ny skulde oplegges med privilegio, den da maate tilforn forbedres paa atskillige steder hvilket icke kunde skee uden flittig arbeide og tilstræckelige subsidier.

Num. 29 er ligeledes en god bog. Men at oplægge den saa hastig igien, vilde vel icke blive gavnligt for forlæggeren, efterdi her i staden sielden er en bogauction, hvor jo et exemplar der affindes, og mange gange er den paa en auction 5 a 6. vel 10. gange, mest siden at bøgfører Christian Geertsen /: som dennem hafer i mængde forlagt /: ved døden er afgaaen.

Num. 30 haver Secretair Wielandt self nyligen ladet trycke. Vi forneme icke til, at den bog skulle være meget begierlig, men tveret

 

 



    


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