The Great Shadow and Beyond the City

Leather Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, Germany 1893. Signed by Arthur Brentano on bookplate on front endpapers. In English. Copyright Edition. 288 pages. Dark brown leather spine and board tips. Boards are Turkish marbled paper. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Owned by Arthur Brentano. Arthur Brentano was President of Brentanos Bookshops and Publishers from 1915 to 1944. Size: 16mo 5.75 - 6.75'' tall. Copyright Edition for Europe. Tauchnitz was the name of a family of German printers and publishers. In the summer of 1843, Tauchnitz presented one of the earliest copyright proposals, which was initially accepted by G.P.R. James, Bulwer Lytton, and Lady Blessington and later by Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Ainsworth, Samuel Warren and Captain Marryat. They published English language literature for distribution on the European continent outside Great Britain, including initial serial publications of novels by Charles Dickens. Though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century, Tauchnitz paid the authors for the works they published, and agreed to limit their sales of English-language books to the European continent, as authors like Dickens or Bulwer-Lytton had separate arrangements for publication and sale in Great Britain. Signed Fiction Antique English 6076