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343.

6o Tonson v. Collins, 344; Boswell, Decision, 18-19.

61 [Warburton], Letter from an author, 10; Pleadings of the counsel, 9, 24-25; Tonson v. Collins, 310; Boswell, Decision, 20, 23-24; Burrow, Question concerning literary property, 56. The booksellers' statement is "The Mode and Manner of Printing Books," appended to House ofLords. The Case of the Respondents [in the appeal of Donaldson v. Becket] (italics in the original). Among the doubters was Karnes, who insisted that copying books was virtuous too.

62 "Gentleman," Cases of the appellants and re pondents 6; Pleadings of the counsel, 7,34; Boswell, Decision, 18-19.

63 Rose, Authors and Owners, 96. I follow Rose's authoritative account closely in what follows.

64 Camden's first supplemental was apparently a 5-5 tie.

65 Rose, Authors and Owners, 98-102; W. Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trade (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1998), 56-62.

66 W. K. Wimsatt and F. A. Pottle, eds., Boswell for the Defence, r769-r774 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959),230.

67 St. Clair, Reading Nation, ioi.

68 Rose, Authors and Owners, 92-97.

69 Blagden, Notebook, 219-21J Raven, "The Novel Comes ofAge," in The English Novel, r99o-r829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles, ed. P. Garside, J. Raven, and R. Schowerling, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999-2000),1:15-121, esp. 79-80, 82, 87-88, 9o; P. Garside, "The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal," in English Novel, ed. Garside, Raven and Schower- ling, 2:15-103, esp. 47, 63, 74, 88-89; J. Feather, A History of British Publishing (London: Routledge, 1988), 82-83; C. Blagden, "Thomas Carnan and the Almanack Monopoly," Studies in Bibliography 14 (1961): 23-43; J. Topham, `ATextbook Revolution," in Books and the Sciences in History, ed. M. Frasca-Spada and N. Jardine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 317-37; C. Walsh, A Bookseller of the Last Century (London: Griffith et al., 1885), 89-117; A. Fyfe, "Young Readers and the Sciences," in Books and the Sciences in History, ed. Frasca-Spada and Jardine, 276-90; D. Blakey, The Minerva Press, 199o-1820 (London: Bibliographical Society, 1939), 16-25.

70 St. Clair, Reading Nation, 122-39;T. F. Bonnell, "John Bell's Poets ofGreat Britain: The `Little Trifling Edition' Revisited," Modern Philology 85 (1987): 128-52; S. Morison,John Bell, -1745-1831 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the author, 1930); M.J. M. Ezell, SocialAuthorship and the Advent of Print (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 131.

71 Garside, "English Novel," 8o; Feather, History ofBritish Publishing 12o; Zachs, First John Murray, 250; P. Garside, "Rob's Last Raid: Scott and the Publication of the Waverley Novels," in Author/Publisher Relations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, ed. R. Myers and M. Harris (Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1983), 88-118.

72 The Charter andgrants of the Company ofStationers (n.p. [London: J. Ilivel, 1762),15-16, 2o; The ,Speech ofMr Jacob Ilive to his brethren the MasterPrinters (London: n.p., n.d. [1750]); D. Foxon, Pope and the Early EighteenthCentury book trade, ed. J. McLaverty (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 250; C. Blagden, The , Stationers'Company:AHistory, r4o3--1959 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1960), 229-30; T. C. Hansard, Typographia (London: for Baldwin, Cradock, andJoy, 1825), 274-75. For ElinorJames, see P. McDowell, ed., ElinorJames, The Early Modern Englishwoman, B. S. Travitsky and A. L. Prescott, general eds., Series II, vol. ii (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005). I have a longer paper on Ilive in preparation, provisionally entitled "God Goes to Grub Street."

73 E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London: Vintage, 1966; orig. 1963), e.g., 234-313; G. S. Jones, Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 215-16.

74 Morris v. Bransom (1776) and Liardet v.Johnson (1778), in W. Carpmael, Law Reports

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