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10 W. Collins, Considerations on the Copyright QuestionAddressedto anAmerican Friend (London: Trubner and Co., 188o), 5,11-12.
II Kaser, Carey &Lea, 69-70,81 (Kaser's figures for the Cooper contract seem to differ, however, between $4,000 and $S,ooo); Clark, Movementfor International Copyright, 34-35. One satisfied recipient of a Carey honorarium was the phrenologist George Combe: see Combe to Carey and Hart, May 7, 1841, Edward Carey Gardiner Collection (ECG), Carey Misc., Carey Section, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP), Box 82, folder 8.
12 Kaser, Carey &Lea, 98-107; M. Carey to H. C. Carey, July 18,19, 22, and 23, 1822, Lea and Febiger Papers, 1822, HSP, Nos. 22302-6.
13 E. Exman, The Brothers Harper (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), 57-58; J. J. Barnes, Authors Publishers and Politicians: The west for anAnglo- American CopyrightAgreement,1815-1854 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974), 57-
14 A. Chase to E. Norton, November 5, 1828, Book Trades Collection, American Antiquarian Society (AAS), r:8; McCarty and Davis Papers, AAS, r:3, No. ioi; M. Winship, "Getting the Books Out: Trade Sales, Parcel Sales, and Book Fairs in the Nineteenth-Century United States," in Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. M. Hackenberg (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1987), 4-25, esp. 9, 12-20; Zboray, A Fictive People, 24-29; Kaser, Carey & Lea, 127-32.
15 R. G. Silver, "The Convivial Printer: Dining, Wining, and Marching,1825- r86o,"PrintingHistory 4 (1982): 16-25; M. A. Lause, Some Degree ofPower: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the PreindustrialAmerican Printing Trades, -r778-i8-r5, (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991), 26.
16 J. Parton, "International Copyright," Atlantic Monthly, October 1867, 430-53, esp. 441.
17 Exman, The Brothers Harper, 53-55, 393-96.
18 McCarty and Davis Papers, AAS, 1:5, nos. 319,320,321; 1:7, nos. 500, 510.
r9 Bradsher, Mathew Carey, 86-87; M. Carey to H. Carey, July 13, 1821, in Lea and Febiger Papers, HSP, no. 18649; MacLeod, "Evolutionism, Internationalism, and Commercial Enterprise," 66; Fiske, Youmans, 149-50; Parton, "International Copyright," 441,443.
20 Clark, Movement for International Copyright, 37; Zboray, A Fictive People, 11-12, 74; M. McGill, American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting 1834-1853 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), 21-23.
21 McGill, American Literature and the Culture ofReprinting; I. Lehuu, Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 59-75; Barnes, Authors, Publishers and Politicians, 6-29;j. L. Sibley to j. Wood, March 3, 1938, Book Trades Collection, AAS, mi.
22 Barnes, Authors, Publishers, and Politicians, 13-15.
23 The New World, 2 (January-July 1841): 94; Clark, Movement for International Copyright, 42, 48, 51-52.
24 N. M. Ashby, Charles Sealsfield (Duarte, Calif.: N. M. Ashby; Stuttgart, Germany: Seal sfield-Gesellschaft,1980), i-5o; C. Sealsfield, Gesammelte Werke, 18 vols. (Stuttgart: J. B. Melzer, 1846 [1842-46]); for the lunar hoax, see D. Schiller, Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commer- cialJournalism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), 76-95.
25 Corsair i, no. i (March 16, 1839): 9; r, no. 2 (March 23, 1839): 26; r, no. 4 (April 6, 1839), 54-56; r, no. 5 (April 13, 1839), 69-70- On Willis, see T. N. Baker, Sentiment and Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). The Corsair merits comparison with the British Pirate of 1833.
26 AAS, classmark Bdsds. 1837; Barnes, Authors, Publishers, and Politicians, 61-65; Clark, Movementfor International Copyright, 39-45, 51-55, 58-63.
27 G. S. Rice, The Transformation ofAuthorship inAmerica (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), 90.
28 `An American," A Plea forAuthors, and the Rights