[Rarebooks] fs-Copyright, Dickens, Talfourd and Wordsworth

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

TALFOURD, Thomas Noon.  A Speech Delivered . . . in the House
of Commons, on Thursday, 18th May, 1837, on Moving for Leave to
Bring in A Bill to Consolidate the Law relating to Copyright, and
to Extend the Term of Its Duration.  Edward Moxon, Dover Street,
London, 1837.  Modern cloth, gilt, ex-library, else a sound copy,
16 pages; a rare work, three copies in OCLC in this country, none
in a law library. [74223 BLS BRYAN 10/10/07]             $ 450.00

Talfourd's seminal speech, seeking for the first time at English
law to extend posthumous copyright protection to authors, a
proposal "radical indeed", seemingly inspired by Wordsworth and
leading Dickens to dedicate 'Pickwick Papers' to Talfourd.

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