[Rarebooks] fs-Legal Deposit of Books

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

[FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND LEGAL DEPOSIT].  [John Cochrane]. The Case Stated 
Between the Public Libraries and the Booksellers.
Not in McCoy.  Printed by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden,
London, 1813.  The copy of Archibald Constable, publisher of Scott
and the Edinburgh Review, presented to him "With the Author's best
Compl[imen]ts"; later cloth dusty. [69747 L76] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69747   $ 1,250.00

The cogent, influential essay thoroughly surveying the intensely
debated issue of legal deposit, originating in the 17th century as
a means of curtailing freedom of the press, its Parliamentary
resolution forming the basis of modern law.

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