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ENGLISH REPRINTED.
AMERICAN COPYRIGHTED.
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Dixon's Free Russia
2
00
Bush Reindeer Dogs, &e.
3
50
Name of Author and Title of Work.
American Prioc.
English Price.
Kingsley's At Last
1 50
Cox's Winter Sunbeams
3
00
In Sterling.
In Gold.
Kinglake's Crimea
Macaulay's Histories
Hallam
Dilke's Greater Britain
2 00
Motley's Histories
3 60
1
50
Bancroft
3
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2 00
Kirke's Charles the Bold
3 00
1
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Prime's Around the World
3
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Dickens' Novels
50 c. to 0
75
Hawthorne
2 00
George Eliot's Novels
0
75
Mre, Stowe
2 00
Charles Reade's Novels..
25 e. to 0
75
Bayard Taylor
1 60
Robertson's Sermons
1
50
Beecher's Sermons
2 50
Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella Robinson, Greek Lexicon Stowe, Mrs., Pearl of Orr's Island
Uncle Tom Minister's Wooing
Sedgwick, Miss, Hope Leslie
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8 6
2 12
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5 0
25
2
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2 6
0
62
2 00
0 62
3 00
11
Linwoods
0
25
Tennyson's Poems
0 75
Longfellow
1 50
3 00
Grote's Greece
1 50
Draper's Civil War
3 60
Married or Single
0 66
3 00
Hume's England
1 50
Hildreth's United States
3 00
Sigourney, Mrs., Letters to Mothers
0
50
} 50
Muller's Science of Religion
2 00
Hodge's Anthropology
4
27
50
Letters to Young Ladies
50
50
Squiers, Wackna ..
0 37
Palmier's Desert of the Exodus
3 00
Thomson's Land and the Book
5
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1 50
Thomson, Land and the Book
0 25
Wallace's Malay Archipelago
3 50
Agassia's Brazil
5 00
5 00
Taylor, B., El Dorado
1 87
Froude's Short Stories ..
1 50
Bancroft's Miscellanies..
3 00
2 25
0 50
1
Barrow's Aretie Voyage
00
Huyes Arctic Beat Journey
2 50
2 25
Thoreau, Walden..
0 87
Layard's Nineveh
1 75
Stephens' Eypt
3
00
2 00
50
Burton's Regions of Central Africa
3
60
Stephens Central America
6 00
3 00
I
87
English Common Law Reports
1 00
Wallace's Reports
6
00
50
0
87
Exchequer Reports
4 00
Blatchford's Reports
7
50
2 00
1
0
25
Bulwer's Queen's Bench
6 00
Albott's Reporta
7 50
2 00
"
0 25
Bulwer's Common Pleas
6 00
Lansing's United States..
B 00
Equity Cases, M. Rolls..
6 00
Chancery, 8 c't, of N. Y.
7 50
Daniel's Chancery Practice, 3 vols.
15 00
Fisher's Patent Cases, 3 vols.
75 00
2 00
121 015
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36 06
4 00
De Witt's Surgery
Ashurst's Surgery
6 50
Total
78 70
Total
181 00
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And a similar effect will be observed by comparing the home prices of American copyrighted books with their prices when reprinted in England.
The English prices are generally taken from the English catalogue by Sampson Low, 1835-1862.
Nume of Author and Title of Work.
Abbott, Franconia Stories
"
Learning to Read
Young Christian
**
Acts
"
Child at Home
Barnes. Four G spels
Beecher, H. W., Eyes and Ears
Couper, Novels, par copy Curtis, G. W., Lotus-Eating
Xile Notes
Du Chaillu, Country: Dwarf Greenwood, Grace, "Forist Tragedy
History of my Pets
Hawthorne, House of Seven Gables
Holmes. O. W., Autocrat of Breakfast Table
At Home and Abroad
Upham, Professor, Madame Guyon
Interior Life Emerson, R. W., Conduct of Life
Representative Men English Traits
From the above exhibits it would seem clear that the law of copyright, as existing in England and this country, in its practical operations in the two countries, tends unmistakeably to check the popular diffusion of literary production by largely increasing the price. This fact could be further illustrated by recurrence to the vast disproportion in the sale of the cheaper reprints and the copyrighted editions in both countries.
England is the great book making and producing nation with which this country has to do, and, consequently, our interests would be most affected by the proposed measure; and that such measure would not promote the progress of science and the useful arts among the American people is believed to be obvious and to admit of little doubt.
The policy of the different States of Europe as to the protection of literary property varies as to the period of time for which it is granted. In England and in this country the protection is ample. The prevailing policy among the nations seems to be to grant such protection to literary property as is deemed a proper incentive to production.
It is questionable whether any system of international copyright could be proposed which would be equally beneficial or just, owing to the different languages prevailing among them.
In view of the whole case, your Committee are satisfied that no form of international copyright can fairly be urged upon Congress upon reasons of general equity or of constitutional law; that the adoption of any plan for the purpose which has been laid before us would be of very doubtful advantage to American authors as a class, and would be not only an unquestionable and permanent injury to the manufacturing interests concerned in producing books, but a hindrance to the diffusion of knowledge among the people and to the cause of universal education; that no plan for the protection of foreign authors has yet been devised, which can unite the support of all, or nearly all, who profess to be favourable to the general object in view; and that, in the opinion of your Committee, any project for an international copyright will be found upon mature delibera- tion to be inexpedient.
American Price.
English Price.
In Sterling.
In Guld.
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1 0
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0 90
1 6
0 37
75
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3
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5 0
1 25
1 50
2 6
0 62
1 75
3 6
0 87
Lectures to Young Men Royal Truths
50
1 6
0 37
1
75
3
6
0 87
0 75
1 0
0 25
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I 50
3 6
D 87
1 50
1
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0
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1 75
1 6
0 37
1 25
1 0
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1
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1
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0 25
2 00
10
0 25
4 QU
2 0
0 50
2 00
1 0
0 25
1
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6
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Professor at Breakfast Table El-ie Venner
1 75
3 6
0 87
3 00
2 0
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Irving, W., Life of Gubismuth
1 50
1 0
0 25
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Life of Columbus Knickerbocker..
Jarves, J. J., Parisian Sights Longfellow, Miles Standish,.
1 75
2 6
0 62
I 73
0 25
1 50
1
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1
25
1
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Outremer
1 50
2 0
0 50
1 60
0 25
Hiawatha
11
1 50
2
0 50
Poems, complete
Lowell, Bigelow Papers
1 30
2
0 62
Vision of Sir Launful
0 75
2 0
0
50
Melville, Omoo
1 60
0 25
1 50
1
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Parton, Life of Creel-v
2 50
7
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Phelps, Rev. A. Still Hours
1 00
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Prescott, Philip II
4 50
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Mexico ..
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