Against the law : crime, sharp practice, and the control of print / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote.
2004
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Title
Against the law : crime, sharp practice, and the control of print / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote.
Created/published
New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2004.
Description
xv, 184 p. : ill., facsims. ; 22 cm
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"These papers are the published proceedings of the 26th annual book trade history conference held at the St Bride Printing Library and Birkbeck College."--P. ix.
"The contributors to this volume explore the underside of the book trade, revealing the ways in which laws and regulations relating to books have been exploited and manipulated, or evaded and broken, over many centuries."--P. vii.
"The contributors to this volume explore the underside of the book trade, revealing the ways in which laws and regulations relating to books have been exploited and manipulated, or evaded and broken, over many centuries."--P. vii.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Book thefts in the Middle Ages / Christopher de Hamel
The censorship of Hebrew books in sixteenth-century Italy / Adri K. Offenberg
'Some property is theft': copyright law and illegal activity in early modern Scotland / Alastair J. Mann
Offensive behaviour in the English book trade, 1641-1700 / Maureen Bell
Crimes of conscience: the last will and testament of John Dunton / Helen Berry
History of the false raised band / Nicholas Pickwoad
Guglielmo Libri / Anthony Hobson
Bound for Botany Bay; or, What did the nineteenth-century convict read? / Bill Bell.
The censorship of Hebrew books in sixteenth-century Italy / Adri K. Offenberg
'Some property is theft': copyright law and illegal activity in early modern Scotland / Alastair J. Mann
Offensive behaviour in the English book trade, 1641-1700 / Maureen Bell
Crimes of conscience: the last will and testament of John Dunton / Helen Berry
History of the false raised band / Nicholas Pickwoad
Guglielmo Libri / Anthony Hobson
Bound for Botany Bay; or, What did the nineteenth-century convict read? / Bill Bell.
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Z278 .A33 2004