AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS

A MANUAL OF SUGGESTIONS FOR BEGINNERS
IN LITERATURE

Comprising a description of publishing methods and arrangements, directions for the preparation of MSS. for the press, explanations of the details of book-manufacturing, instructions for proof-reading, specimens of typography, the text of the United States Copyright Law, and information concerning International Copyrights, together with general hints for authors. By G. H. P. and J. B. P.

Seventh Edition, re-written with additional material. 8°, gilt top

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CHIEF CONTENTS

net, $1.75

PART I.-Publishing arrangements-Books published at the risk and expense of the publisher-Books published for the account of the author, i. e., at the author's risk and expense, or in which he assumes a portion of the investment-Publishing arrangements for productions first printed in periodicals or cyclopædias-The literary agent-Authors' associations-Advertising-On securing copyright.

PART II.-The Making of Books-Composition-Electrotyping-Presswork-Bookbinding-Illustrations.

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"Full of valuable information for authors and writers. most instructive and excellent manual."-GEORGE WM. CURTIS in Harper's Magazine.

"This handy and useful book is written with perfect fairness and abounds in hints which writers will do well to 'make a note of.' There is a host of other matters treated succinctly and lucidly which it behoves beginners in literature to know, and we can recommend it most heartily to them."-London Spectator.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON

Butbors and

Publisbers

BY GEO. HAVEN PUTNAM

AUTHORS AND THEIR PUBLIC IN
ANCIENT TIMES

A Sketch of Literary Conditions and of the Relations with the
Public of Literary Producers, from the Earliest Times

to the Fall of the Roman Empire.

Second edition, revised, 12°, gilt top, $1.50.

The book abounds in information, is written in a delightfully succinct and agreeable manner, with apt comparisons that are often humorous, and with scrupulous exactness to statement, and without a sign of partiality either from an author's or a publisher's point of view.-New York Times.

BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

A Study of the Conditions of the Production and Distribution of
Literature from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the
Close of the Seventeenth Century.

In two volumes, 8°, cloth extra (sold separately), each $2.50
Vol. I., 476-1600 Vol. II., 1500-1709.

It is seldom that such wide learning, such historical grasp and insight, have been employed in their service.-Atlantic Monthly.

It is a book to be studied rather than merely praised. . . That its literary style is perfect is acceptable as a matter of course, and equally of course is it that the information it contains bears the stamp of historical verification.-N. Y. Sun.

THE QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT

Comprising the text of the Copyright Law of the United States, and a summary of the Copyright laws at present in force in the chief countries of the world; together with a report of the legislation now pending in Great Britain, a sketch of the contest in the United States, 1837-1891, in behalf of International Copyright, and certain papers on the development of the conception of literary property and on the results of the American law of 1891.

Second edition, revised, with additions, and with the record of legislation brought down to March, 1896. 8°, gilt top, $1.75.

A perfect arsenal of facts and arguments, carefully elaborated and very effectively presented. Altogether it constitutes an extremely valuable history of the development of a very intricate right of property, and it is as interesting as it is valuable.-N. Y. Nation.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

NEW YORK: 27 West 23d Street.

LONDON: 24 Bedford St., Strand.