ents for
productions first printed in periodicals or cyclopaedias--The
literary agent--Authors' associations--Advertising--On securing
copyright.

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

"Full of valuable information for authors and writers. . . . A
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

BY GEO. HAVEN PUTNAM

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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 deg., 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 deg., 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 cert