Title
‘Against the Will and Without the Permission of the Trustees’
Description
Just as Wordsworth had been wary of the rise of tourism, his trustees were suspicious of the illustrated books that encouraged tourism. They claimed that A. W. Bennett—the publisher of Our English Lakes, Mountains and Waterfalls—had violated their copyright. This letter threatens legal action against Bennett if he does not withdraw the copyrighted poems from ‘the present and all future editions of the work’. Bennett altered the contents, but the book did go into a second edition: proof of the wide appeal of photographically illustrated editions.
Creator
From Edward Moxon, Sons & Co. to A. W. Bennett
Date
22 December 1864
Format
MS letter and envelope
Identifier
94/5/9 22 Dec 1864