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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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copyright libraries
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Six libraries to which publishers must send free of charge, if so requested, a copy of every book. By an act of 1666 printers were required to deliver three copies, one each for the King's Library and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Further acts added copies for the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh (1709), Trinity College in Dublin (1800, following the Act of Union) and the National Library of Wales (1911). The six copyright libraries today, descended directly from those first granted this privilege, are the *British Library (the only one to which a copy must be sent without being requested), the Bodleian at *Oxford, the University Library at *Cambridge, the *National Library of Scotland, the *National Library of Wales and Trinity College, Dublin.
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