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1553: William Seres' Printing Patent (United Kingdom)
1553: John Day's Privilege for the Catechism (United Kingdom)
1554: Selected Extracts from the Stationers' Company's Registers (United Kingdom)
1557: The Privy Seal warrant concerning the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom)
1558: Calve's privilege for the 'Holsome and Catholick Doctrine' (United Kingdom)
1558: Phayer's privilege for Virgil's Aeneid (United Kingdom)
1559: Day's The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom)
1559: Jugge and Cawood's printing patent for statute books (United Kingdom)
1559: Seres' patent for Primers and Psalters (United Kingdom)
1559: Totell's patent for Common Law Books (United Kingdom)
1618: Daniel's The Collection of the Historie of England (United Kingdom)
1643: An Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing (United Kingdom)
1644: Milton's Areopagitica (United Kingdom)
1647: Ordinance against Unlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets (United Kingdom)
1649: An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets (United Kingdom)
1653: An Act for reviving [the 1649 Act] (United Kingdom)
1662: Licensing Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1663: L'Estrange's Considerations and Proposals (United Kingdom)
1667: Recital of the Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom)
1684: Stationers' Charter (United Kingdom)
1693: Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom)
1695: Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act (United Kingdom)
1700: Bladen's Privilege (United States)
1706: Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1709: Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1709: More Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1709: Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons (United Kingdom)
1710: A Bill for Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1721: Burnet's Bill of Complaint and Chetwood's Answer (United Kingdom)
1721: Burnet v. Chetwood: Entries from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom)
1729: Gay v. Read (United Kingdom)
1735: The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. (United Kingdom)
1735: Engravers' Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1737: An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Draft) (United Kingdom)
1741: Gyles v. Wilcox (Barnardiston's Report) (United Kingdom)
1741: Pope's Bill of Complaint, and Curl's Answer (United Kingdom)
1741: Pope v Curl: Entry from the Court's Book of Orders (United Kingdom)
1746: North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners (United States)
1750: New York Law Printing Privilege (United States)
1751: Tonson v. Walker (United Kingdom)
1761: Tonson v. Collins (United Kingdom)
1762: A Vindication of the Rights of Authors (United Kingdom)
1766: Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom)
1766: Blackstone's Commentaries, Vol.II (selected extracts) (United Kingdom)
1772: Second New York Law Printing Privilege (United States)
1772: William Billings' Second Petition (United States)
1772: William Billings' Printing Privilege (United States)
1773: Information for Messrs John Hinton et al (United Kingdom)
1773: Information for Alexander Donaldson (United Kingdom)
1774: Hargrave's Argument in Defence of Literary Property (United Kingdom)
1774: The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents (United Kingdom)
1774: The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House (United Kingdom)
1774: Booksellers' Bill (United Kingdom)
1774: Enfield's Observations (United Kingdom)
1774: Macauley's A Modest Plea (United Kingdom)
1774: Stella's Modest Exceptions (United Kingdom)
1777: Engravers' Copyright Act (United Kingdom)
1781: Andrew Law's Privilege (United States)
1782: Letter from Smith to Webster (United States)
1783: Petition of John Ledyard (United States)
1783: Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress (United States)
1783: Continental Congress Resolution (United States)
1783: Massachusetts Copyright Statute (United States)
1783: Maryland Copyright Statute (United States)
1783: New Jersey Copyright Statute (United States)
1783: New Hampshire Copyright Statute (United States)
1783: Rhode Island Copyright Statute (United States)
1783: Ledyard Petition Committee Report (United States)
1784: Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison (United States)
1784: Pennsylvania Copyright Statute (United States)
1784: South Carolina Copyright Statute (United States)
1785: Virginia Copyright Statute (United States)
1785: North Carolina Copyright Statute (United States)
1786: Georgia Copyright Statute (United States)
1786: New York Copyright Statute (United States)
1787: Calico Printers' Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1787: Constitutional Convention Journal Entry (United States)
1787: Madison's Journal Record (United States)
1787: Madison's Edited Journal Record (United States)
1788: The Federalist No. 43 (United States)
1789: Ramsay's Petiton House Record (United States)
1789: House Joint copyright and patent bill decision (United States)
1789: Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (United States)
1789: Ramsay's Petition (United States)
1790-1800: Sample registrations (United States)
1792: Purcell's Printing Privilege (United States)
1798: Models and Busts Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1799: Documents concerning the Models and Busts Act (United Kingdom)
1801: A Bill for the Further Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1801: Copyright Act (parchment copy) (United Kingdom)
1802: 1802 Amendment (United States)
1812: Petition of the London Booksellers (United Kingdom)
1813: Petition of the Printers of London and Westminster (United Kingdom)
1813: Petition of the Edinburgh Booksellers (United Kingdom)
1813: Report of the Acts Respecting Copyright (United Kingdom)
1813: Select Committee Report on Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (United Kingdom)
1813: Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1814: Sculpture Copyright Act (United Kingdom)
1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (10 May) (United Kingdom)
1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (19 May) (United Kingdom)
1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (12 July) (United Kingdom)
1814: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (18 July) (United Kingdom)
1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (18 May) (United Kingdom)
1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (7 June) (United Kingdom)
1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (12 July) (United Kingdom)
1814: Bill to amend Acts for the Encouragement of Learning (15 July) (United Kingdom)
1818: Select Committee Report on the Copyright Acts (United Kingdom)
1818: Select Committee Report: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1826: Letter from Noah Webster to Daniel Webster (United States)
1826: Letter from Daniel Webster to Noah Webster (United States)
1828: Letter from Donaldson to Peters (United States)
1828: Letter from Donaldson to Wheaton (United States)
1828: Letter from Peters to Donaldson (United States)
1828: H.R. 140 Committee Bill (United States)
1828: H.R. 140 Consolidated Bill (United States)
1830: Dramatic Writings Bill (United Kingdom)
1830: Judiciary Committee Report (United States)
1830: Letter from John McLean to Richard Peters Jr. (United States)
1831: House Debate (United States)
1832: Select Committee Report: Dramatic Literature (United Kingdom)
1832: Parliamentary Debates on Drama and Dramatic Literature (31 May) (United Kingdom)
1833: Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (12 March) (United Kingdom)
1833: Parliamentary Debates on the Dramatic Literary Property Act (24 July) (United Kingdom)
1833: Bill to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property (United Kingdom)
1834* : Wheaton v. Peters (United States)
1834* : Wheaton v. Peters Independent Report (United States)
1834: Letters from Sumner to Story (United States)
1835: Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (24 Aug.) (United Kingdom)
1835: Parliamentary Debates on the Lectures Act (26 Aug.) (United Kingdom)
1835: Publication of Lectures Bill (United Kingdom)
1836: Copyright in Prints and Engravings (Ireland) Act (United Kingdom)
1837: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Dec.) (United Kingdom)
1837: Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom)
1837* : Senate Report (United States)
1837: Petition of British Authors (United States)
1837: Debates in Congress (United States)
1837: Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the United States (United States)
1838: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom)
1838: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (19 July) (United Kingdom)
1838: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (25 April) (United Kingdom)
1838: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 May) (United Kingdom)
1838: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom)
1838: Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1838: Copyright Bill (6 June) (United Kingdom)
1838: Address of Certain Authors (United States)
1838: Report, from the Committee on Patents (United States)
1838: Memorial of the New York Typographical Society (United States)
1838: Memorial of a Number of Citizens of Boston (United States)
1839: Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1839: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1839: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (1 May) (United Kingdom)
1839: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (9 July) (United Kingdom)
1840: Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1840: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (4 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1840: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (14 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1840: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (8 July) (United Kingdom)
1841: Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1841: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (27 Jan.) (United Kingdom)
1841: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (29 Jan.) (United Kingdom)
1841: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1841: Master in Chancery Report (United States)
1841: S. 227 (Dramatic Works Public Performance Bill) (United States)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (8 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (21 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (3 Mar.) (United Kingdom)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (16 Mar.) (United Kingdom)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (23 Mar.) (United Kingdom)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (6 April) (United Kingdom)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (20 April) (United Kingdom)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom)
1842: Parliamentary Debates on the Copyright Act (9 May) (United Kingdom)
1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (4 March) (United Kingdom)
1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (23 March) (United Kingdom)
1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (21 April) (United Kingdom)
1842: Bill to Amend the Law of Copyright (27 June) (United Kingdom)
1842: Memorial of a Number of Persons Concerned in Printing and Publishing (United States)
1843: An Address to the People of the United States (United States)
1844: International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1844: H.R. 9 (Ingersoll Bill) (United States)
1847: Foreign Reprints Bill (United Kingdom)
1848: Jay, Bryant and Others' Memorials (United States)
1851: Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (United Kingdom)
1852: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (13 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1852: Parliamentary Debates on the International Copyright Act (30 April) (United Kingdom)
1852: Copyright and Natural Right (United States)
1853: Blaine's Laws of Artistic Copyright (United Kingdom)
1853: Letters on International copyright (United States)
1853: British-American Copyright Convention Draft (United States)
1853: Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill (United States)
1853: Stowe v. Thomas, Defendant's Answer (United States)
1853: Affidavit of Harriet Beecher Stowe (United States)
1853: 'Uncle Tom' at Law (United States)
1857: Return of Colonies and British Possessions on Importation of Reprints (United Kingdom)
1858: Report of the Artistic Copyright Committee (United Kingdom)
1861: Fine Art Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1861: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Bill (6 May) (United Kingdom)
1861* : Confederate States of America Copyright Act (United States)
1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (28 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (6 March) (United Kingdom)
1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (20 March) (United Kingdom)
1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (31 March) (United Kingdom)
1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (22 May) (United Kingdom)
1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (23 May) (United Kingdom)
1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (5 June) (United Kingdom)
1862: Parliamentary Debates on the Fine Art Copyright Act (24 July) (United Kingdom)
1862: Fine Art Copyright Bill (27 Feb.) (United Kingdom)
1862: Fine Art Copyright Bill (20 March) (United Kingdom)
1862: Southern Feeling (United States)
1863: Confederate States of America Copyright Act Amendement (United States)
1863: Hardee's Memorial (United States)
1863: International Copyright Resolution (United States)
1865* : Copyright Act Amendment (United States)
1870: Committee Report on S.703 (United States)
1870* : Copyright Act (United States)
1872: Correspondence and Papers on Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom)
1872: International Copyright Bill (United States)
1873: Committee on the Library Report (United States)
1874: Correspondence respecting Colonial Copyright (United Kingdom)
1878: Royal Commission on Copyright: Minutes of Evidence (United Kingdom)
1879: Copyright Consolidation Bill (United Kingdom)
1879* : Drone on Copyright (United States)
1879: Selden's Argument (United States)
1879: Baker's Argument (United States)
1882: Oscar Wilde photograph (United States)
1883: Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony (United States)
1883: Sarony's Brief (United States)
1883: Burrow-Giles' Brief (United States)
1885: Carte v. Duff (United States)
1886: International Copyright Bill (United Kingdom)
1886: Correspondence respecting the Copyright Union (United Kingdom)
1886: Berne Convention (United Kingdom)
1886: Committee on Patents Report (United States)
1888: American Authors and British Pirates (United States)
1888: The International Copyright Bill (United States)
1890: Report on H.R. 10881 (United States)
1891: Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co. (United States)
1891* : International Copyright Act (The Chace Act) (United States)
1893: Falk v. Donaldson (United States)
1894: Report on H.R. 6835 (United States)
1894: H.R. 6835 (Cummings Bill) (United States)
1896: Public Performance Bill (United States)
1896: Report on H.R. 1978 (United States)
1896: Report on S. 2306 (United States)
1896: Hearing on H.R. 5976 (United States)
1896: Treloar Copyright Bill (H.R. 5976) (United States)
1896: Debate in Congress (United States)
1896: The Question of Copyright (United States)
1897* : Copyright Act (Public Performance of Musical Compositions) (United States)
1899: Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., District Court Decision (United States)
1900: Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Circuit Court Decision (United States)
1902: Bleistein's Brief (United States)
1902: Bleistein: Donaldson Lithographing Co. Brief (United States)
1902: Bleistein: Three Posters (United States)
1903: Bleistein: Cartoon (United States)
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