You are desired to meet the booksellers who lately petitioned Parliament for relief, at the Devil Tavern at Temple-Bar, on Thursday next the 16th instant, at five o'clock in the afternoon, on special affairs

You are desired to meet the booksellers who lately petitioned Parliament for relief, at the Devil Tavern at Temple-Bar, on Thursday next the 16th instant, at five o'clock in the afternoon, on special affairs

by J. Wilkie

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Invitation sent by bookseller John Wilkie to a meeting with the booksellers who petitioned Parliament regarding the "relief of booksellers ... by vesting the copies of printed books in the purchasers of such copies from authors ... for a limited time," which was part of the so-called "battle of the booksellers," a campaign by booksellers advocating for perpetual copyright under common law.

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