The Author’s Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright
By Joseph Loewenstein (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) The Author’s Due offers an institutional and cultural history of books, the book trade, and the bibliographic ego. Joseph Loewenstein traces the emergence of possessive authorship from the establishment of a printing industry in England to the passage of the 1710 Statute of Anne, which provided the legal underpinnings for … Continued