Typographical Antiquities: History, Origin, and Progress, of the Art of Printing, from Its First Invention in Germany to the End of the Seventeenth Century : and from Its Introduction Into England, by Caxton, to the Present Time ... : with Chronological Lists of Eminent Printers in England, Scotland, and Ireland ... : Also a Particular and Complete History of the Walpolean Press, Established at Strawberry Hill ... : at the Conclusion is Given a Curious Dissertation on the Origin of the Use of Paper : Also, a Complete History of the Art of Wood-cutting and Engraving on Copper ... : Concluding with the Adjudication of Literary Property ... : with a Catalogue of Remarkable Bibles and Common Prayer-books ...

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111. lappuse - When a man by the exertion of his rational powers has produced an original work, he seems to have clearly a right to dispose of that identical work as...
111. lappuse - Now the identity of a literary composition consists entirely in the sentiment and the language; the same conceptions, clothed in the same words, must necessarily be the same composition: and whatever method be taken of exhibiting that composition to the ear or the eye of another, by recital, by writing, or by printing, in any number of copies, or at any period of time, it is always the identical work of the author which is so exhibited: and no other man (it hath been thought) can have a right to...
102. lappuse - Sublacensi, in the kingdom of Naples, in which the quotations from the Greek authors are printed in a very neat Greek letter. " The Greek tongue, which had lain dormant for centuries, began to revive upon the invention of the Greek types, which was a little before the time of Aldus.
104. lappuse - China feveral ages before, appeared at laft in the empire of the Eaft, yet without any certain knowledge of the author, or the time and place of its invention. In the fixth volume of the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Infcriptions and Belles-Lettres, theie is a DiiTertation of Father Montfaucon, which, proves, that cotton paper began to be ufed in the empire of the Eaft about die ninth century.
119. lappuse - It is certain every man has a right to keep his own sentiments, if he pleases: he has certainly a right to Judge whether he will make them public, or commit them only to the sight of his friends.
112. lappuse - Whereas printers, booksellers, and other persons have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing, reprinting, and publishing, or causing to be printed, reprinted, and published, books and other writings, without the consent of the authors or proprietors of such books and writings, to their very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families...
1. lappuse - Typographical Antiquities. History, Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing, from its first Invention in Germany to the end of the Seventeenth Century, and from its introduction into England, by Caxton, to the present time...
108. lappuse - Germans, and firft praftifed by Mair; one of whofe prints of this kind is dated 1499. Many excellent works in chiaro-fcuro have been produced in France ; and in Italy it was honoured with the performances of Titian and Parmegiano ; but the attempts of Jackfon, Kirkall, and others in England, have not been equally fuccelsful.
120. lappuse - It is wise in any state to encourage letters, and the painful researches of learned men. The easiest and most equal way of doing it, is, by securing to them the property of their own works. Nobody contributes, who is not willing : and though a good book may be run down, and a bad one cried up, for a time; yet, sooner or later, the reward will be in proportion to the merit of the work. A writer's fame will not be the less, that he has bread without being under the necessity of prostituting his pen...
119. lappuse - ... every man has a right to keep his own sentiments, if he pleases: he has certainly a right to Judge whether he will make them public, or commit them only to the sight of his friends. In that state, the manuscript is, in every sense, his peculiar property: and no man can take it from him, or make any use of it which he has not authorized, without being guilty of a violation of his property. And as every author or proprietor...

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