'Once upon a time there were three Georges': Infringement of "copyright" in the 1520s

A talk by Professor Peter WM Blayney, University of Toronto.

Peter Blayney holds Professorial Status in the English Department at the University of Toronto and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library. An independent scholar since the 1980s, his published work includes studies of the printing and publication of early modern playbooks and the bookshops in St Paul's Churchyard. His most recent book is a two-volume study of the Stationers' Company and the printers of London in 1501–1557, and he is working on a sequel that will continue the story to 1616.

Presented by Merton History of the Book Group in cooperation with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book.