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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Appellants' case in the House of Lords: being the action of Thomas Cadell and William Davies, booksellers in London, and William Creech, bookseller in Edinburgh, against James Robertson, printer in Edinburgh, over the copyright of the poems of "Robert Burns the Scottish poet" |
| Date | 1810-1811 |
| Document Type | Miscellaneous |
| Publishing Location | Spottiswoode & Robertson, Sackville Street: London, United Kingdom |
| Theme | Business and Finance |
| Description | The appellants' case was printed in 1810 to be heard at the Bar of the House of Lords that year. The verso of page [8] has been annotated to record the decision of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament, made on 15 July 1811, namely that "the said cause be remitted back to the Court of Session in Scotland". |
| Keywords | law and litigation bookselling printing copyright |
| People | Cadell, Thomas Davies, William Creech, William Robertson, James Burns, Robert |
| Places | United Kingdom; London; Edinburgh |
| NLS Collection | Business and Legal papers but in the Ownership and Property section |
| NLS Reference | MS.43011 |
| Copyright and Source Archive | The National Library of Scotland |