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Statute of Anne, London (1710)
Source: scanned from the parchment copy in the UK Parliamentary Archives
Citation:
Statute of Anne, London (1710), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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of the two Universities in that part of Great Britain
called England and the said Lord President of the Sessions
Lord Justice General Lord Cheife Baron and Rector
of the College of Edinburgh in that part of Great
Britain called Scotland or any one of them by
writing under their hands and seals And thereof
publick notice shall be forthwith given by the said
Bookseller or Booksellers printer or printers by
an Advertisement in the Gazette And if any
Bookseller or Booksellers printer or printers
shall after such settlement made of the said rate
and price sell or expose to sale any Book or Books
at a higher or greater price than what shall have
been so Limited and settled as aforesaid Then and
in every such case such Bookseller and Booksellers
printer or printers, shall forfeit the sum of
five pounds for every such book so by him her or
them sold or exposed to sale One moiety thereof
to the queens Most Excellent Majesty her heirs
and successors and the other moiety to any person
or persons that shall sue for the same to be recovered
with costs of suit, in any of her Majesties Courts
of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill
plaint or information in which no wager of Law
Essoigne privilege or protection or more than
One imparlance shall be allowed Provided
always and it is hereby Enacted that nine Copyes
of each book or books upon the best paper that
from and after the tenth day
of April One thousand seven hundred and ten
shall be printed and published as aforesaid or
Reprinted and published with additions
shall by the printer and printers thereof be delivered
to the Warehouse Keeper of the said Company of
Stationers for the time being at the hall of the
said Company before such publication made for
the use of the Royal Library the Libraryes of the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the Librarys
of the four Universities in Scotland the
Library of Sion College in London and the Library
commonly called the Library
belonging to the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh
respectively Which said Warehousekeeper is
hereby required within ten days after demand
by the Keepers of the respective libraryes or any
person or persons by them or any of them authorised
to demand the said Copy to deliver the same for the use
of the aforesaid Libraryes And if any proprietor Book-
seller or printer or the Warehousekeeper
of the said Company of Stationers shall not
Observe the direction of this Act therein That then
he and they so making default in not delivering the said
printed Copies as aforesaid shall forfeit besides the
value of the said printed Copies the sum of five
pounds for every Copy not so delivered As also the
value of the said printed copy not so delivered
the same to be Recovered by the Queens Majestie
her heirs and successors And by the Chancellour
Masters and Scholars of any of the said
Universities And by the President and Fellows of Sion
College and the said Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh
with their full costs respectively Provided
always and be it further enacted that if any person
or persons incur the penalties contained in this
Act in that part of Great Britain called Scotland
they shall be recoverable by any Action before the
Court of Session there Provided that nothing in this
Act contained do Extend or shall be construed to
extend to prohibit the importation vending or
selling of any Books in Greek Latin or any other
foreign language printed beyond the seas any thing in
this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding
And be it further Enacted by the authority
aforesaid that if any Action or Suit shall be
Source: scanned from the parchment copy in the UK Parliamentary Archives
Citation:
Statute of Anne, London (1710), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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of the two Universities in that part of Great Britain
called England and the said Lord President of the Sessions
Lord Justice General Lord Cheife Baron and Rector
of the College of Edinburgh in that part of Great
Britain called Scotland or any one of them by
writing under their hands and seals And thereof
publick notice shall be forthwith given by the said
Bookseller or Booksellers printer or printers by
an Advertisement in the Gazette And if any
Bookseller or Booksellers printer or printers
shall after such settlement made of the said rate
and price sell or expose to sale any Book or Books
at a higher or greater price than what shall have
been so Limited and settled as aforesaid Then and
in every such case such Bookseller and Booksellers
printer or printers, shall forfeit the sum of
five pounds for every such book so by him her or
them sold or exposed to sale One moiety thereof
to the queens Most Excellent Majesty her heirs
and successors and the other moiety to any person
or persons that shall sue for the same to be recovered
with costs of suit, in any of her Majesties Courts
of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill
plaint or information in which no wager of Law
Essoigne privilege or protection or more than
One imparlance shall be allowed Provided
always and it is hereby Enacted that nine Copyes
of each book or books upon the best paper that
from and after the tenth day
of April One thousand seven hundred and ten
shall be printed and published as aforesaid or
Reprinted and published with additions
shall by the printer and printers thereof be delivered
to the Warehouse Keeper of the said Company of
Stationers for the time being at the hall of the
said Company before such publication made for
the use of the Royal Library the Libraryes of the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the Librarys
of the four Universities in Scotland the
Library of Sion College in London and the Library
commonly called the Library
belonging to the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh
respectively Which said Warehousekeeper is
hereby required within ten days after demand
by the Keepers of the respective libraryes or any
person or persons by them or any of them authorised
to demand the said Copy to deliver the same for the use
of the aforesaid Libraryes And if any proprietor Book-
seller or printer or the Warehousekeeper
of the said Company of Stationers shall not
Observe the direction of this Act therein That then
he and they so making default in not delivering the said
printed Copies as aforesaid shall forfeit besides the
value of the said printed Copies the sum of five
pounds for every Copy not so delivered As also the
value of the said printed copy not so delivered
the same to be Recovered by the Queens Majestie
her heirs and successors And by the Chancellour
Masters and Scholars of any of the said
Universities And by the President and Fellows of Sion
College and the said Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh
with their full costs respectively Provided
always and be it further enacted that if any person
or persons incur the penalties contained in this
Act in that part of Great Britain called Scotland
they shall be recoverable by any Action before the
Court of Session there Provided that nothing in this
Act contained do Extend or shall be construed to
extend to prohibit the importation vending or
selling of any Books in Greek Latin or any other
foreign language printed beyond the seas any thing in
this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding
And be it further Enacted by the authority
aforesaid that if any Action or Suit shall be