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Filippo Brunelleschi’s patent petition

Printing patent to Johannes of Spyer

Statute regulating industrial brevets

Privilege to the author (Marc Antonio Sabellico)

Printing patent for music notation to Ottaviano Petrucci

Privilege of the Imperial Senate for editions of works of Hrotsvit

Privilege of the Imperial Senate for an editions of works of Conrad Celtis

Aldo Manuzio’s complaint against counterfeit

Dürer, The Betrothal of the Virgin, woodcut

Privilege granted to Eloy d'Amerval, for his book, the Livre de la deablerie

Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick printed in his book Mirror of organ makers and organ players

Epilogue to Albrecht Dürer’s book The Live of Mary with reference to an imperial privilege 1511

Poem referring to an Imperial Privilege for Arnolt Schlick for an edition of music: Tabulatures of several Canticles and Songs for the organs and lutes

Imperial Privilege for Eucharius Rösslin’s The pregnants womens’ and midwifes’ rose garden

Raimondi, The Betrothal of the Virgin, engraving

Privilege granted to Galliot Du Pré, printer, for Le grant coustumier de France

Imperial Privilege for Johann Eck’s Aristotelis stragyrite dialectica

Ducal Bavarian Privilege for Johann Turmair’s Rudimenta gramatica of 1516

Petition by Lodovico Ariosto for exclusive right to print and sell his Orlando Furioso

Filippo Giunti’s petition for the removal of a sentence of banishment, following Aldo-Giunti lawsuit

Ugo da Carpi’s patent for his technique of chiaroscuro printing

Appointment of the first literary censor Andrea Navagero (CX)

The earliest decree on press affairs

Richard Pynson’s Privilege for printing The Pope's Bulle

Martin Luther’s warning to the printers in his sermon book of 1525

General censorship law establishing obligatory pre-publication censorship (CX)

Printers Provision of 28. October 1531 as documented in the Basel book of decrees

Schott v Egenolph – Legal actions before the Imperial Chamber Court

Pope Clement VII’s privilege to Antonio Blado for works by Machiavelli

Pope Clement VII’s privilege to Antonio Giunti for works by Machiavelli

A Proclamation Prohibiting Unlicensed Printing of Scripture

Edit (Act) on censorship control by the Faculty of theology of Paris

Electoral Saxon Privilege for Martin Luther’s German bible of 1545 and Luther’s warning to the printers

Press reform regulating author-printer relations and censorial revision of books by the Refformatori dello Studio di Padova

License granted to Antonio Catalano for his new method of teaching grammar at school

Decree of the CX establishing the Guild of Printers and Booksellers

Mariegola (Excerpts from the Minute Book of the Guild of Printers and Booksellers)

General privilege granted to Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard

Richard Tottell's Patent for Printing Books of Common Law

Stationer's Royal Charter

Elizabethan Injunctions

Giorgio Vasari, ‘Life of Marcantonio Bolognese’, in Lives of the artists(Florence, 1568)

Simon Marion's plea on privileges, author's right and public domain

Giovanni Fratta, Discourse On the Dedication of Books (Venice, 1590)

Decree on the Motu proprio controversy (Senato Terra)

Decree for the Privileges for New and Reprinted Books

1608 Imperial Printing Statute

Paolo Sarpi, Memorial On the Office of the Inquisition

Book trade regulations and incorporation of the Parisian Book trade (statuts de la communauté des libraires, imprimeurs et relieurs de Paris)

Paolo Sarpi, Memorial on the Prohibition of Books

Statute of Monopolies

Mémoire of Antoine Vitré on privileges prorogations and their utility to the public

The humble Remonstrance of the Company of Stationers to the High Court of Parliament

Ordinance for the regulation of Printing

Edit du Roy containing new regulations for the Book Trade

Ordinance against unlicensed or scandalous Pamphlets, and for the better Regulating of Printing

An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets, and for better regulating of Printing

An Act for reviving of a former Act, entitled, An Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and   Pamphlets, and for Regulating of Printing, with some Additions and Explanations

Parliament of Paris' decision on privileges duration and public domain

Schupp: The Books Thief

Roger L’Estrange, Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press: Together with Diverse Instances of Treasonous and Seditious Pamphlets, Proving the Necessity Thereof

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi on privileges (Josse v. Malassis)

1673 John Usher's Printing Privilege

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi on sculptures and paintings regulations

Grimmelshausen’s ironic, selfmade ‘Privilege’ in the second book of his Wunderful Bird’s nest

Mémoire on the opposition between the Parisian and the Provincial Booksellers

Beier: Short Report on the Book Trade and its Privileges

John Locke, Memorandum on the 1662 Act

John Locke, The Second Treatise on Government [selected extracts]

Reasons for objecting to the renewal of the Licensing Act [Journal of the House of Commons]

William Bladen's Liberty to print in Maryland

Reasons Humbly Offer'd for a Bill for the Encouragement of Learning, and Improvement of Printing

Reasons Humbly Offer'd for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning

More Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, for the Bill for the Encouragement of Learning

Reasons Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons, Relating to the Bill, For Securing Property in Books

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi relating to the painters, members of the Academy of fine arts

A Bill for Encouragement of Learning, and for Securing the Properties of Copies of Books to the Rightful Owners Thereof

Burnet v. Chetwood [Material from The National Archives]

First of Saugrain's publication of the Code de la librairie (1723 book trade regulations)

Mémoire of Blondel on the Parisian booksellers "vexations"

Birnbaum: An honest patriot’s thoughts on the sources and effects of the current decline of the book trade

Thurnisius (Thurneysen) Dissertation on the illegal Reprint of Books

The Case of Designers, Engravers, Etchers, &c. stated in a Letter to a member of Parliament

Bill for the Better Encouragement of Learning

Last of Saugrain's publication of the Code de la librairie (1723 book trade regulations)

Johann Abraham Birnbaum: article on ‘Reprint of Books’ in Zedler’s encyclopaedia

Gyles v. Wilcox [Alternative Report]

Samuel Johnson, "Considerations on the Case of Dr.Trapp’s Sermons, abridged by Mr. Cave, 1739"

Pope v. Curl [Material from The National Archives]

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi on Author's rights (Aff. Crébillon)

William Warburton, A letter from an author, to a Member of Parliament, concerning Literary Property

North Carolina Printing Privilege to Commissioners

Fritsch: Treatise on Book Printers, Book Traders, Papermakers and Bookbinders

William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, Plate 1

Règlement pour les comédiens ordinaires du Roi, Dramatic Act

Contract between an author, le Sieur d'Anville, and his booksellers (Desaint, Saillant and Durant)

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi on Author's heirs literary property (Aff. des demoiselles de La Fontaine)

Diderot's Letter on the Book Trade

Anon., An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property

Anon., A Vindication of the Exclusive Rights of Authors, to their own works

Engravers Act 1766

William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol.II [selected extracts]

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi on Author's literary property (Aff. Luneau de Boisjermain)

Decree for Booksellers in the Habsburgian Lands

Donaldson v. Becket [Hansard, 17 (1771-1774) 953-1003]

The Cases of the Appellants and Respondents in the Cause of Literary Property

The Pleadings of the Counsel before the House of Lords in the great case concerning Literary Property

An Act for the Relief of Booksellers and others

Francis Hargrave, An Argument in Defence of Literary Property

William Enfield, Observations on Literary Property

Catherine Macauley, A Modest Plea for the Property of Copyright

Stella, Modest Exceptions from the Court of Parnassus, to Mr Macauley's Modest Plea

William Billing's Second Petition to the Massachusetts Governor and House of Representatives

William Billing's Printing Privilege Bill

Mémoire of the Provincial Booksellers from Lyon and Rouen… concerning privileges and their prorogations

Arrêt du Conseil du Roi on privileges duration (30 August

Mémoire to the Men of Letters (Avis aux Gens de Lettres)

Chodowiecki’s allegory Works of the darkness and the Austrian reprint in late eighteenth century

Stationers Company v. Carnan

Engravers Act 1777

Censorship Ordinance for Austria

The sentence of the Riformatori dello Studio pronounced in the case of Nicolò Pezzana v. Senate, in favour of the author.

Declaration of the Consiglio di Stato del Re [Francese] 30 Aug 1777 on the freedom of artistic creation, and other related documents from ASV, Riformatori dello Studio di Padova, f. 365, Fasc. Pezzana Stampa, pp. 46-16.

Andrew Law's Legislative Printing Privilege

Petition of John Ledyard

Letter from Samuel Stanhope Smith to Noah Webster

An Act for the Encouragement of Literature and Genius [Connecticut]

Letter from Joel Barlow to the Continental Congress

Continental Congress Resolution recommending the several States to secure to the authors or publishers of new books the copyright of such books

An Act for the purpose of securing to authors the exclusive right and benefit of publishing their literary productions for twenty – one years [Massachusetts]

An Act respecting literary property [Maryland]

An Act for the promotion and encouragement of literature [New Jersey]

An Act for the encouragement of literature and genius, and for securing to authors the exclusive right and benefit of publishing their literary productions for twenty – one years [New Hampshire]

An Act for the purpose of securing to authors the exclusive right and benefit of publishing their literary productions for twenty – one years [Rhode Island]

Letter from Noah Webster to James Madison

An Act for the encouragement and promotion of learning [Pennsylvania]

An Act for the encouragement of the arts and sciences [South Carolina]

Kant: On the illegality of Reprint

An Act securing to authors of literary works an exclusive property therein for a limited time [Virginia]

An Act for securing literary property [North Carolina]

An Act for encouragement of literature and genius [Georgia]

An Act to promote literature [New York]

Constitutional Convention Journal entry of August 18 1787

Madison's edited Journal Record of August 18 1787

The Federalist (No. 43)

Petition of David Ramsay of the State of South Carolina

House Decision to prepare a bill for general copyright and patent protection

A Bill to Promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts [H.R. 10]

Loi relative aux découvertes utiles… (Revolutionary Patent Act) with the report of de Boufflers

Loi relative aux spectacles… (Revolutionary Dramatic Act) with the report of Le Chapelier

Report of François Hell to the National Assembly on perpetual literary property

Beaumarchais' petition to the National Assembly

Loi relative aux droits de propriété des Auteurs d'écrits en tout genre… (Revolutionary Artistic and Literary property Act) with the report of Lakanal

Reimarus: Consideration of Publishing Rights concerning Reprint

Fichte: Demonstration of the Illegality of Reprinting

Schiller’s contract with the publisher Göschen regarding the journal Die Horen

An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned. “Act of May 31, 1790”

Joseph Purcell's Map Printing Privilege

George Garrard, A Copy of the Documents, &c. respecting An Act of Parliament …