The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century by Finkelstein, David; Nash, Andrew;

Volume III: Authors, Publishers and Copyright Law

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Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 14 March 2024

ISBN 9780367568429
Binding Hardback
No. of pages412 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 453 g
Language English

Short description:

This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing relations between authors and publishers in the nineteenth century, and the impact of copyright reform on publishing practices. T

Long description:

This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing relations between authors and publishers in the nineteenth century, and the impact of copyright reform on publishing practices. The enormous expansion in the scale and variety of the marketplace for print after 1815 provided new opportunities for authors and prompted debates over intellectual property and the working relations between authors and publishers. The volume documents the impact of these changes on the publishing industry and its markets, focusing on key moments such as the emergence of the professional literary agent in the late 1870s and the formation of the Incorporated Society of Authors in 1883. It also includes key contemporary material related to copyright and intellectual property, which were major battle grounds affecting nineteenth-century textual circulation, author/publisher relations, financial sustainability, competitiveness in international markets, and industrial relations. The British publishing industry?s attempts to control piracy and unrestricted circulation of their titles in the US and elsewhere found expression in a number of pressure campaigns, formal government commissions, legal acts, and contributions to public debate through journal articles, pamphlets, speeches, and newspaper accounts, of which a representative selection are featured in this volume.

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).