Synopsis
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
History of Priestcraft, it was my desire to do it at so cheap a rate as to bring it within the reach of as great a portion of the public as possible. For this reason the price was fixed at 5s.; but it was equally desirable that the book should be made as perfect and effective as possible, and therefore in the third edition, matter to the amount of onethird of the original quantity was added, on theE nglish Church; and it was found necessary, from experience gained by the sale of the former editions of the work, to charge it 7s. It was then said that the price of even such a book as this put it out of the power of the working class to obtain it, and it was recommended to publish so large an edition, and in such a form, as to reduce the price to the very lowest scale. While I was considering how this might best be done, with out such a loss as I could not, in justice to my family, incur, I was astonished by the appearance of an advertisement, announcing an abridgment of the work published by John Cleave, at I s. 6d. But if I was astonished at this impudent invasion of copyright, by a man calling himself a reformer, I was more so, by seeing the True Sun newspaper come forward as the unblushing advocate of this piracy. I ts strange article on this subject, consisting of more than a column and a half, may be seen in theN o. for June 10th. It assumes that an abridgment of a work is no piracy; that in complaining of it as a violation of my copyright, I am both legally and morally wrong.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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