The Hired Baby with Other Stories and Social Sketches (Vol. 2722)

Leather Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, Germany 1891. Copyright Edition. 264 pages. From the library of Arthur Brentano, president of Brentano's, Inc., owners of the largest retail bookselling business in the world. Dark brown leather spine, marbled paper boards. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Has bookplate. Size: 16mo 5.75 - 6.75'' tall. Tauchnitz was the name of a family of German printers and publishers. In the summer of 1843, Tauchnitz presented one of the earliest copyright proposals, which was initially accepted by G.P.R. James, Bulwer Lytton, and Lady Blessington and later by Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Ainsworth, Samuel Warren and Captain Marryat. They published English language literature for distribution on the European continent outside Great Britain, including initial serial publications of novels by Charles Dickens. Though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century, Tauchnitz paid the authors for the works they published, and agreed to limit their sales of English-language books to the European continent, as authors like Dickens or Bulwer-Lytton had separate arrangements for publication and sale in Great Britain. Fiction Antique Fiction Modern::Fantasy 6055