You are desired to meet the booksellers who lately petitioned Parliament for relief, at the Devil Tavern at Temple-Bar, on Thursday next the 16th instant, at five o'clock in the afternoon, on special affairs
Publisher: John Wilkie
Published: 1774
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Booksellers and bookselling; Early works to 1800; Perpetual Copyright; Cases; Copyright; Printed ephemera; Specimens
Description: Invitation sent by bookseller John Wilkie to a meeting with the booksellers who petitioned Parliament regarding the "relief of booksellers ... by vesting the copies of printed books in the purchasers of such copies from authors ... for a limited time," which was part of the so-called "battle of the booksellers," a campaign by booksellers advocating for perpetual copyright under common law.
Notes: Title from text of invitation.

Signed in manuscript: Yr humble servt, John Wilkie.

Dated at bottom of sheet: June 13, 1774.

Purchased in 2019 with the Louis J. Appell Jr. Fund for British Civilization in HCL.

Mounted on a sheet of paper, 15 x 23 cm; in prefab, 26 cm.