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    Oxford: March 21, 1889.

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    St. Dunstar^S House, Fleet Street, Londo...

    8 . In the letter we sent to Mr . Eccles , we ventured to suggest that in cases of this kind it

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    than insist on the delivery of books their claim to which seems to stand on such a slender

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    , Dear Sir , —I am in receipt of your letter , and will lay it before the Syndicate * at its next

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    take its legal course . This , howeverI say without knowing what view the Syndicat ^ e is likely to take of your

    representations . —Yours faithfully , W . IlOBEBTRON SMITH , » Librarian .

    I Cambridge: .» March 1 13 1 W » B 1889....

    I Cambridge : . » March 1 13 1 w 1889 .

    *^^^ ^^ ^* - BP ^ BP ^ ^ ^^ —^ P ^» , ^ B ^ ^^^^ ^ Bp' ^ B » P ^ . ^^ B ^ Dear Sir , —I this day laid before the Library ¦ S Br ^_ V yndicate " ^ " ^^ M ^^ P ^^ . ^^^ ^^^ P ^^ P ^^ T ^^ P ^^^ P your ^ B ^ BB ^ ^""^ B ^^^^ . letter P ^ ^^» ^ - ^ ^^ ^^ P" BPBBP of - ^^ ^—^ the ¦ — " 4 ^^ - ^ th ^^ ^^^^ inst ^ ^ ^~ ^ . ^ in ^ ~ — ¦ support ¦ ¦ ^ T ^^ ™ ^^^ ^^^

    of your refusal to supply to our agent , Mr . Eccles , under the Copyright Act , copies of the books ' printed in America but published by your firm in

    England which he has recently claimed from you . J according The Syndicate to Jawand are th satisfied ey desire that me the to claim inform is

    , you that thej r do not see any reason to waive their legal rights , and that unless the copies in question are BBbb ^ lied before Easter they will commence

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    E . Marston , Esq ., Director of the Publishing Firm of S . Low , Marston , Searle Sc Rivington , Limited .

    Oxford: March 21, 1889.

    Oxford : March 21 , 1889 .

    Dear Sirs , —Our copyright-agent sent me your letter of February 20 , and I should have written to you before now but that extraordinary pressure

    of work compelled me to postpone all Copyright-Act correspondence . You that it is not fair that books \ XV . -

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    -pears just . But I think I am right in Baying that , although the copy-tax sections are in a desi Copyri ¦ gn BBBBBh ¦ " ght for ' ^¦^ B the Act protection , they do of not copyri orig ht inat . e They in any are

    desoended ^^ P ^^ ^ B ^ *~^ T " ^¦ ¦ ¦ PIT ' m from ' — ¦ ^ T ^ ^^^ § ^ ^^^ ^ 17 ^ ^^^ ^^^ of ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^ 13 ^^ ^^ ^*^^ & ^^ 14 ^ ^^^ M ^^ Car 9 ^^^ ^^ g ^ . ^^^ % ^^ II ^^^ ^^^ ., c ^^ . ^^* ^^ xxxiii " ^ ^^^^ f ^ bV ^ Y' ^ P ^ . , fl ^^ ' An ¦ » I ¦ ¦ Act ¦ ¦ ¦ for preventing i i ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ i Bk Abuses i in Printing

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    Oxford: March 21, 1889.

    bridge suddoss , . and tnat that there the the can intention intention be no reasonable was was to to entorce enforce doubt , b hv I suppose

    law , and , to extend to two other librariejS j the y grant the Bodleian already . made ¦ -- by the * Stationers' Company 'V " to

    It may seem hard to yau that the present Act should cover English books printed out oi ; the

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    any such books , so that relatively you gain enormously ^¦^¦ bbbbb ^ bbp ^^^ ^ pp ^ pp ^^^ m by ^^ " ^^ W living ^^^^^^ * ^^^ ^^^^^ ^ VP ^^ h unde ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ r ^^^ " the ^^ bpbp ^ bbp" ^^^ present ^ p ^ bp ~ ^^^ " ^ ^ bp ~ ¦ ™ ^ bbp ~ a ^^^^^ v bbpt ^ Act bp ^ bbbbbp ^ bb » ^ bbp instead b ^^ •^¦ b ^ h . vpbhpb 1 bbbp ^ pjp ^ * Papv ^ ^^ pl ^ k of ^ j p ,

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    good book which they would not have read if them they had more known discount it to from be American the bookseller ; it may and get it

    may enable them to sell the bookbettersecond ; - hand . Biit surely the main motive is the ad

    vantage of the publisher , who— Kudos apart- —can dispose of many more copies than if he appeared to be simply selling an American publisher ' s

    fcook — - ^ - — . - ^» » And ¦ ^^ ¦ ~— ^ m if a ^^ ^™^^ ^ im ^«—^^ - ^^^^ B seek ^^ ~^ ^^ p ^— ^^ - — - ^ the ^^ ¦ - ^^^ - ^^ advantage ^ r ¦ - ^ ¦ ^ ^—^^ ^ n ^ " ^^^^ »^^^ ^^ ^»^^ to * ^^^^ ^ 'b ^ be ^^ to 9 ^^ derived from making an American book as far as possible indistihguishable from a British oneand

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    consider ^ ^^ it hard that the ^ law ^^ also " regards —^ them as publishers of it .

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    With regard tb your final argument , I do not in the least fail to appreciate it , but I ask you to -look at the matter froni the point of view of the

    four libraries . We believe that the Act gives us these books . Are we justified in foregoing this benefit ? It is not as if we could do without

    them . Our traditions , and the expectations formed of us , demand that we should seek to make ourselves as nearly as possible complete in

    books published - in this country , and under that head we must include all English books bearing a ^~ —~ British i ~ —~ ¦ ^^ » JW w -m- ¦ ~—r ¦ , p ¦¦ publisher ^ ^ Br ^ pv ¦¦ ' b ^^ b ^ BBI I ^>^^ P ^ ^ BV BB ^ BP ' s B title ^ BP PBHP ^ Bp' « B ^ ^ BaB - * page ¦¦ BJ B ^ Br ^ BP ^ B | B ^ h ^ BB ^ B . ^ If b ^ BJBh BBBBB we ^ V ^ B | pP did ^^ BJ >^ ^^ ^^ BrVflB not ^ B ^ 4 B ^ ^^ BP * ^^"

    claim these books , our successors would some day or other Jiave to pick them up secondhaad at much trouble h and cost . f £ Are BbBi we justified in

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    know what to do with ' . I believe the Bodleian is far ¦ ¦ the ¦» - least B- BP of the four librariesbut

    m althoug — — - ^ " ^ B h it ^ B >^ # - ™* is " ^ more poor | V ^*^ ^ pP' ^ " » ^ P than ^ - » BP - ^ P— P- ^ hal BBP" V , - f ^ . p * ^^ ^ as ^ ^^ f , ^ large ^ « ^^^ ^¦ " 4 kV ^^ P >»^ as ; H P ^^ the ^ 4 ^ , V British ~ ' " — " —¦ —~ » Museum ' ¦ " ^^ — ' " »» ^ ¦ ¦ P BH its BJBpbT income B ^ H ^ BB ^ B ^ BBBBfc ^ ibP- is * BB » B % ^ the « BBI H » ~^|^ B- * merest ¦¦«« bB- » P ^ BV fraction JBBJ p BJ j J B ^ ' ^^ " , ^— ^ ^^ i ^^ ^ " ^ ^ ^ , ^ ^^ ^ fcp ^^^^ ^ , ^ j ^^ . p ^^^ . ^ . p ^

    of what the Museum has , and we are engaged in a continual - ^ p- — - — — ^^ ^— ¦— - ^— ^ — ¦ b —™ struggle ¦ ¦• - ^ p- ^ - ^— m » f . ^ % * " " ^ " ^ to ^^ ^ " ^^ perform r ^^ ^* * ^^ ^ " ^^ ^^ *^ *™^* adequatel ^**^^ ^^ nk ^^^ ^ -i bm ^ ' ¦ jhm' ^ v ^ k ** ^ m ^ ^ h y w on ^ f— MkvfflW our ^ k ^ r M _ r » m *

    libraries present incbme in the world the duties . of one of the largest I noted with i leasure ¦ «¦ that **| althoug B ^^^ BJB ^ k h

    argued . ' ' ' the ^ " ^ ^^ ^^ equity ^ " ' ' ^"" T ^^^~ ¦ of p B ^ BBT " ^^ the B ^ P- ^ B f >*^ matter ^^ r ^ pP V ^ ^^ ^ . ^ PflV " , H very f pfJ reasonably ^ pH * ^ ^ M * K K ^ 4 ^ ^ l ¦ you W ^ B ^^ * - ^ fc from the publishers ' point of view , you did not refuse —— to * - * suppl w * r y the books claimedand I trust f b

    that - - — - ^ - — — you - ^ - ~ - will ™~ — — r ^ understand mW ^^ b »^ ^^ ¦ BB * ^^ - - ^^ ^ my - p . »^ ^»^ inability ^^>^ *» ^ ^ # ¦ ^^^ i ^ h « p « , a to *^ p ^ v »* b ^ withdraw ^*< v > _ n ^ «<^ « --m-p <^ ^ ll will wi the claim supply srmnlv , so them them far as and and the Bodleian that that if if you vnn is concerned still sHll consider ^ rknsirl . , and iQr

    that you are subject , to any hardship you will not regard the ltbr-aries as responsible . Jfor it . —I am , dear Sir , yours faithfully ,

    E . B . Nicholson Bodley ' s L ^ ibrarian . Messrs . Searl Sampson e & Rivington Low , Marston . ,

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 1, 1889, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01041889/page/14/