Portrayed here is an assortment published by the House of Beadle. The division's large copyright records collection, dating from 1790 to the 1890s, is another important source for the study of American literature and the Anglo-American cultural heritage. These extensive holdings include court registration ledgers, deposited title pages, deposit copies, and ledgers from the Patent Office and the State Department that indicate that a copy of a published work had been deposited with them. Bibliographers and historians can benefit from copyright information about claimants, the identification of authors of pseudonymous or anonymous works, and the exact dates of registration. Deposited title pages help document the pre-publication history of these works and often offer significant bibliographical details.
Some registrations refer to books no longer extant or never published.
The division keeps adding to these holdings as copyright records are periodically released from the Library's Copyright Office .