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Book/Printed Material An act for the encouragement of the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints, by vesting the properties thereof in the inventors and engravers, during the time therein mentioned

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Title

  • An act for the encouragement of the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints, by vesting the properties thereof in the inventors and engravers, during the time therein mentioned

Names

  • Great Britain
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed by John Baskett ..., 1735.

Headings

  • -  Design protection--Great Britain

Notes

  • -  Caption title. Above caption: Anno octavo Georgii II. Regis.
  • -  Page [213] reads: Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, octavo. At the parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the fourteenth day of January, anno Dom. 1734 ... Being the first session of this present parliament ...
  • -  Imprint from p. [213]
  • -  Signatures: 3H² 3I1.
  • -  English Short Title Catalogue, N51295
  • -  Bound with: An act to amend and render more effectual an act ... for encouragement of the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints ... London : Printed by Mark Baskett ..., 1767 -- An act for more effectually securing the property of prints to inventors and engravers ... London : Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan ..., 1777.
  • -  Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975.

Medium

  • p. [213]-218 ; 31 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KD1345 .A3 1735 Rosenwald Ref Coll

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 85460036

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Great Britain, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection. An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and Other Prints, by Vesting the Properties Thereof in the Inventors and Engravers, During the Time Therein Mentioned. London: Printed by John Baskett, 1735. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/85460036/.

APA citation style:

Great Britain & Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection. (1735) An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and Other Prints, by Vesting the Properties Thereof in the Inventors and Engravers, During the Time Therein Mentioned. London: Printed by John Baskett. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/85460036/.

MLA citation style:

Great Britain, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection. An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and Other Prints, by Vesting the Properties Thereof in the Inventors and Engravers, During the Time Therein Mentioned. London: Printed by John Baskett, 1735. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/85460036/>.