An edition of 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 (1774)

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

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An edition of 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 (1774)

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

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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.

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John Wilkie
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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
1774, John Wilkie
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Edition 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.

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OL61285521M
OCLC/WorldCat
1150315182

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OL44907009W

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