Against the law : crime, sharp practice and the control of print, edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote

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Against the law : crime, sharp practice and the control of print, edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote

Title remainder

crime, sharp practice and the control of print

Statement of responsibility

edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote

Instantiates

• Against the law : crime, sharp practice and the control of print

Publication

• New Casstle, DE, Oak knoll, London, British Library, 2004

Note

• "These papers are the published proceedings of the 26th annual book trade history conference held at the St Bride Printing Library and Birkbeck College."--P. ix
• "The contributors to this volume explore the underside of the book trade, revealing the ways in which laws and regulations relating to books have been exploited and manipulated, or evaded and broken, over many centuries."--P. vii

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Book thefts in the Middle Ages / Christopher de Hamel -- Censorship of Hebrew books in sixteenth century Italy / Adri K. Offenberg -- Some property is theft: copyright law and illegal activity in early modern Scotland / Alastair J. Mann -- Offensive behaviour in the English book trade, 1641-1700 / Maureen Bell -- Crimes of conscience: the last will and testament of John Dunton / Helen Berry -- History of the false raised band / Nicholas Pickwoad -- Guglielmo Libri / Anthony Hobson -- Bound for Botany Bay; or, What did the nineteenth century convict read? / Bill Bell

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58055691

Dimensions

22 cm

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xv, 184 pages

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9781584561538

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations

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.b52750164