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THE
LAW OF COPYRIGHT
THE LAW
OF
COPYRIGHT BY William Wordsworth LONDON
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
1916
[5] PREFATORY NOTE.
THE Copyright Act referred to by Wordsworth in the following document was presented to the House of Commons for the first time on April 18th, 1838, the day upon which the poet addressed his open letter to Serjeant Talfourd.
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