The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century

Volume 3: Authors, Publishers and Copyright Law

Volume 3 Introduction

Bibliography

Part 1. AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND AGENTS






'Books, Booksellers and Bookmakers', London Magazine, Vol. 10 (February 1828), pp. 254-60.



'Authors and Publishers', The New Quarterly Review and Digest of Current Literature, British, American, French, and German (January 1854), pp. 9-17.



'Introduction', The Search for a Publisher; or, Counsels for a Young Author (1855; London: Provost & Co., repr. 1882), pp. 3-19.



James Spedding, Publishers and Authors (London: Printed for the Author by John Russell Smith, 1867), pp. 1-55.



'An Interview with Mr A.P. Watt', Bookman (October 1892), pp. 20-2.



William Heinemann, 'The Middleman as Viewed by a Publisher', Athenaeum (11 November 1893), p. 663



T. Werner Laurie, 'Author, Agent, and Publisher by one of "The Trade"', Nineteenth Century (November 1895), pp. 890-5.



Walter Besant, 'The Literary Agent', Nineteenth Century (December 1895), 979-86.



Robert Buchanan, Is Barabbas a Necessity? A Discourse on Publishers and Publishing (London: Robert Buchanan, Author & Publisher, 1896), pp. 3-31.
Part 2. AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND COPYRIGHT LAW




Robert Maugham, extract from A Treatise on the Law of Literary Property (London and Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; Henry Dixon; Adam Black, 1828), pp. vii-xviii.



'The Copy-Right Law', Monthly Review (January 1838), pp. 52-63.



W. and R. Chambers, 'Brief Objections to Mr Talfourd's New Copyright Bill', Times (25 April 1838), p. 3.



Letter from Robert Chambers to the Times (18 May 1838), p. 3.



'New Copyright Bill', Times (31 May 1838), p. 4.



[Routledge v Low], 'Literary and Musical Copyright', Athenaeum (16 December 1865), pp. 845-6.



John Camden Hotten, extracts from Literary Copyright: Seven Letters Addressed by Permission to the Right Hon. The Earl Stanhope (London: John Camden Hotten, 1871), pp. 15-46, 91-102, 135-55



Matthew Arnold, 'Copyright', Fortnightly Review (March 1880), 319-34.



Edward Marston, extract from Copyright, National and International: with some remarks on the position of authors and publishers by a publisher (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887), pp. 5-44.



Charles James Longman, 'A Publisher's View of International Copyright', Fraser's Magazine (March 1881), pp. 372-8.



Wilkie Collins, 'Thou Shalt Not Steal', Author 2 (June 1890), pp. 31-5.



C. J. Longman, 'The American Copyright Bill', Economic Review (April 1891), pp. 203-8.



G. Herbert Thring, 'Recent Attempts at Copyright Legislation', Fortnightly Review (March 1898), pp. 461-7.



Augustine Birrell, 'The Present Situation', in Seven Lectures on the Law and History of Copyright in Books (London: Cassell & Co., 1899), pp. 205-23.
Part 3. PUBLISHERS AND THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS




Extracts from The Grievances Between Authors and Publishers. Being the Report of the Conferences of the Incorporated Society of Authors held at Willis's Rooms, in March 1887 with Additional Matter and Summary (London: Field & Tuer; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1887), pp. 7-46, 52-61, 127-85.



'The Mysteries of Publishing: An Interview with Messrs Chatto and Windus', Pall Mall Gazette (9 March 1887), pp. 1-2.



J. Neville Porter, 'The Relations Between Authors and Publishers', Time (1887), pp. 399-411.



'Archdeacon Farrar and the Publishers', correspondence from the Times, 7-14 October 1890. [Letter from J. Russell Endean, 7 October; letters from F.W. Farrar and Cassell and Company, 8 October; letters from Walter Besant, F.W. Farrar and J Russell Endean, 9 October); letter from Andrew W. Tuer, 10 October; letters from An Author, Harry Quilter, and E. Marston, 11 October; letters from Walter Besant, S.S. Sprigge, and Facing Both Ways, 13 October; letters from George Lock and Andrew W. Tuer, 14 October].



Extracts from William Heinemann (ed.), The Hardships of Publishing: Letters to 'The Athenaeum' (London: Privately Printed, 1893), pp. 3-28; 30-32; 42-57; 59-62; 95-113.



Walter Besant, extracts from The Pen and the Book (London: Thomas Burleigh, 1899), pp. 145-86, 200-13.



'Am I a Thief? A Publisher's Reply to Sir Walter Besant', article and correspondence published in Outlook (Original article, 14 January; Letters by Walter Besant, Another Publisher, Thomas Pinkerton, 21 January; Letter by Another Publisher, 28 January; Letters by A Publisher, A London Bookseller, 11 February 1899).

Index