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Notes
I wish to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars for fellowship and research support during the preparation of this article.
The full text of the Chace Act is published as Chapter 565 in The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, 1889 to March, 1891 (1891), 26: 1106-10. The manufacturing clause is contained in Section 4952 of the law.
Unwin, The Truth about Publishing (1926), p. 69. In subsequent editions, Unwin changes the figure to three percent. In the first edition he writes, "Sooner or later, most English books of importance get published in America in some form" (p. 207). In the 1946 second edition, however, he changes the sentence to read, "At one time most English books of importance were published in America in some form, but this is no longer the case" (p. 198).
Heinemann, "The Hardships of Publishing," Athenaeum, no. 3397, 3 Dec. 1892, p. 779. This piece was later reprinted by Heinemann, together with other materials, in The Hardships of Publishing (1893).
The marked typescript setting-copy of The "Genius" is in the Theodore Dreiser Papers, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Reynolds to Holt, Box 104, Henry Holt Papers, Princeton University Library. Quoted with permission. Even as late as 1937, one finds Maxwell Perkins informing Ellen Glasgow that the Virginia Edition of her works (sold in the United States on a subscription basis by canvassers) would be typeset with modified Oxford spelling. Perkins chose this style of composition because Scribners hoped for British subscribers as well. (Perkins to Glasgow, 8 November 1937, Glasgow Papers, Alderman Library, University of Virginia.)
B. E. Maidment, "John Ruskin, George Allen and American Pirated Books," Publishing History, 9 (1981), 5-20.
Hawkins to McClure, 20 Jan. 1896, Barrett Miscellaneous Collection 9040, Manuscripts Department, Alderman Library, Univ. of Virginia. Quoted with permission.
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