By Geo. baven Putnam. Books and Their Makers during the Middle Ages.-A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the close of the Seventeenth Century. 2 vols., sold separately. 8°, each $2.50 Volume I. now ready. Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times.-A sketch of literary conditions, and of the relations with the public of literary producers, from the earliest times to the invention of printing in 1450. Second Edition revised. 12°, gilt top, $1 50 The Knickerbocker Press appears almost at its best in the delicately simple and yet attractive form which it has given to this work, wherein the chief of a celebrated publishing house sketches the gradual evolution of the idea of literary property. The book abounds in information, is written in a delightfully succinct and agreeable manner, with apt comparisons that are often humorous, and with scrupulous exactness to statement and without a sign of partiality either from an author's or a publisher's point of view.-New York Times. The Question of Copyright.-Comprising the text of the Copyright Law of the United States, and a Summary of the Copyright Laws at present in force in the Chief Countries of the World. Second edition, revised, with Additions, and with the Record of Legislation brought down to March, 1896. 8°, gilt top, $1.75 A perfect arsenal of facts and arguments, carefully elaborated and very effectively presented. Altogether it constitutes an extremely valuable history of the development of a very intricate right of property, and it is as interesting as it is valuable.-New York Nation. The volume contains much useful information, and is a decidedly valuable contribution to the literature of copyright. It should prove of great service in leading to a better appreciation of the subject on both sides of the Atlantic.-London Athenæum. G. P. Putnam's Sons NEW YORK AND LONDON 347.4 THE QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT 'COMPRISING THE TEXT OF THE COPYRIGHT LAW OF THE UNITED STATES, A SUMMARY OF THE COPY- THE CHIEF COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD TOGETHER WITH A REPORT Of the legisLATION NOW PENDING IN GREAT BRITAIN, OF LITERARY PROPERTY, AND ON THE RESULTS OF THE AMERICAN ACT OF 1891, 655 up COMPILED BY GEO. HAVEN PUTNAM, A.M. SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' COPYRIGHT LEAGUE |