The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-04-10 00:00:00

BOOKSELLERS.

PETITION OF NOOKAELLERII OF LONDON
RF.SPECTING THE COPYRIGHT ACT,
Preteßiesi fro Me Horse of

A Petition of the RookieDere and PahHarr. of London
sod IVesseiiiiester. otiose Nantes are Ilseeensito sitheweihrol, on
he half of PIN s and ails' re the Rook ostlers and Pole-
fishers of Books in the Cities of Lesioloo end Westminster,
was presented, anal avail • sett forth. 'float the Pent milers
presented shi ir liusolde Priotem to ihe theme in the lasi
Parlisnereet, empretleelly stannic ll* co il.ll.lfleell lamb tin'y
neninre.l t the eglierfaltill e f dot part of the Are of the
bath of his 'women 51sjerty, intended, " An Art to pommel
the seemed Arts for the memseragemesst of learniteg, by m-
ewing the copies and copyright of printed books to Ilse
authors and their assigns." which mojoiewell the a:cheery of
eleven remits of every hook and volume for the 11. rem a•
Ise s Ilwreio aseseisiested, rhleh after the paining Of that Art
should he prime.' for oaks and bomb', praying for relief;
than the Petitiotions mid Petition was refereed, with a num-
her of others, to a Select Committee mined by the Home,
who resonated many 'isomers runeering the matters tberee
mentioned; anal whose Report, together with the minute s of
the it-sideline taken before such Committee, was laid upon
the Wile of the House, and mitered lobe primed ; that the
Petitioners humbly submit, that the grievances which they
here esperieured from such delivery have been hilly 'hewn
On such centrum; it appears thereby, that the actual cost
of the Woks delivered lay the Howie of Loosgmaii and
ileompany, time the paining of the said Act, ise July
1814 to the month of April !Old, seal stood 3,0001 and
that mother hooks. Iler, Mr. John Murray, had lost
1;175/. by the !smoke he had deliver' 4 dewing the same
twine, ; it 111,0 appealed, that the delivery of ale yen
cupies of only Gee 'sulks, same ly, Ougilate's " Mo-
netnews Anglicanism," his " History of Saint Paul's,"
" Portraits of Illusti lams Peeselllggelg," Ormerod's
tory of Cheshire." sod Wooers " Aqweire Omminesiseri,"
would amount to 1,198/ 14s. ; and that the delivery of. keen
copies of may one work, ilemlwel.st Scenes sail Monu-
ments of Greece," would, at the trade sa'e price, be
about 2731 ; the Petinemers will out intrude on she at-
tention of the Misuse, toy staling the various tojenimis
effects on arts sad literature in genesal, which this alc-
hemy is staled, in such evidence, In have medium el, as
w. II as on the properly of the 01,114 V 1 and authors of
books; lout they calumny slate, dud if the grievance is
manifestly great on bleb priced books, at is out less indi-
vidually revere in its general amonsot mt the inisel
eationaof the soar; and the Penh iiii els Immlely suleinit,
that Ilse irieressangemteem of printing English books abroad
Is an aolditemal Inv my to the Winnowers to solicit flee_
House to remove from theta the Lowden of emotive r.. 1
ing these eleven copies, which to 11111.1ilg1Illy tends to in-
crease the poke of English publications; the PetilioneiJ
therefore most humbly pa ay, That die !lease will he pleased-
to Kraut them such relief as to the ii. mond and de livery of
the eleven cellos of books for the Lihsarim 111 the said Act
mentioned, as in its wisdom shall seem most xp. dicta, and
more especially, by repealing the clauses of the said Art
whirls enjoins the delivery of the said eleven copies, except-
ing one copy to the British Museum.
A Petition of George Lackieglon, Richard Hughes, Joseph
Harding, George Fordyce Armor, and Thomas Jones, ell of
Finsbury-square, in the county of Middlesex, tomsksellets
and co-partners, was prevented and read; silting forth, That
the Petitioner,., during the last Session of the Isle Parliament
of the United Kingdom, humbly approached the Howie, to
petition fur relief room the oppressive grievance to which
they stand expiated under the operation of an Act passed in
the 54th year of his present Majesty, iutitukd, "An Act for
the Encomagement of Learning ;" which, among whet pro-
visions, enacts that thorn copies of every hook printed and
published in the United Kingdom, with additions, shall be
delivered, without any remuneration bring made therefore
to certain public libraries; anal whereas, the dissoliiiion of
the late Parliament liming arrested the progress of a Bill
then before the House, fur a modification of the said Act, as
to the wisduni of Ilse Home might seem MI, the Petitioners,
in consequence of olatervin; that the subject has hero agaio
brought before the House, humbly state the hardships to
which they are exposed in proseention of their ber.inrst as
Booksellers and Publithers ; the Petitioners, beiug engaged
io the publecati 111 l of many expensive and very cosily works,
are subjected to peculiar hardship and loos hy the provision
of the said Am, which compels the delivery of Memo
copies of every book peiblislieel by the I'. 'lnoue rs to differ-
ent public libraries; many of which oihraries, before the
passing of the said Act, being pruntoto rs Joel encourages
of great literary undertakinv, le lug pm chasers thereof,
but which the Petitioners etc nun compelled by the said
Act to give them without payment ; to slew the tx•
tent of the grievance to which the Petitioners stand ex-
posed by the pros .simis. elf the Art of the 54th year
of his present Majesty. tatito,!etl. An Act fair the Encou-
ragement of Learnisio;" 0.. t a tech Act has eliscouraged the
Petitioners from ptiblhhin4 several leari.ed wooks, on ec-
connt of the oppressive optimum' theinef,) the y select nix
works of which they ate cottage d its the publication, said
upon which alone the 100., he consequelocr of the gratuitous
delivery to the public 10,r:tries of eh I eal copies, asnuotitu
to the oppressive sum et ?.,154, 7s. 0.1. a: follows; rideliiet,
Eletell Copies of Sir Wm. Degdoles Nlemasii-
CUn Anglicanism, four volumes radio . 4819 0 0
Eliseo Copses of Sir Win. Lhordale's History of
St. Cathedral, min volume folio - 189 0 0
Eleven Copies of Portraits of Illustrious Per-
swages, by E. Lodge, Esq. two volumes folio 030 0 0
Eleven Copies of Sir Richard Hisare's History
of Ancient IVillskire, two volumes folio - 241 10 0
Eleven Copies of the History of Cheshire, by C.
Ormeruol, Esq. three volume,. folio - 315 0 0
Eleven Copies of Wood's Atheism Oxonienses,

by Itev:P. Bliss, six volume:a nivel quarto - 250 17 11

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