id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 1n79h418d79 Douglas Duhaime Copyright and the Early English Book Market: An Algorithmic Study 2019 .txt text/plain 295 10 43 In short, while book historians and legal scholars have written copious amounts of scholarship on the relationship between early copyright law and the eighteenth-century publishing industry, these studies have tended to focus on a small handful of pivotal writers and legal cases. This dissertation's focus on the relationship between copyright law and the eighteenth-century book market is motivated by the fact that English courts of the period revolutionized copyright law in ways that continue to influence contemporary legal thought. cache/1n79h418d79.txt txt/1n79h418d79.txt