William Howitt's Abridgment of His Popular History of Priestcraft (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

William Howitt

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ISBN 10 : 1330424050 ISBN 13 : 9781330424056

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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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.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330424050
• ISBN 13: 9781330424056
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
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