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Story of the British Museum
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ISBN: 0714117285 Year: 1998 Publisher: London : British Museum Press,


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The golden age of Anglo-Saxon art, 966-1066
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ISBN: 0714105325 9780714105321 Year: 1984 Publisher: London : British Museum Publications,


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Byzantium : treasures of Byzantine art and culture from British collections

Music entries at Stationers' Hall, 1710-1818 : from lists prepared for William Hawes, D.W. Krummel, and Alan Tyson and from other sources
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ISBN: 1317092058 131709204X 1281332739 9786611332730 0754692914 9780754692911 9780754634584 0754634582 0754634582 9781317092056 9781281332738 6611332731 9781315596761 9781317092032 9781317092049 1315596768 Year: 2004 Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall warehouse keeper entered details into a register. They included the date of registration, the name of the work's proprietor (its author or, if copyright had been transferred, its publisher), and the work's full title, which normally named the composer and the writer of any text and often named the work's performers and dedicatee.Although some publi

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