Reply to a "Notice" of Messrs. Wiley and Putnam, publishers of the unauthorized reprint of the second part of Professor Liebig's Report on organic chemistry, published in the Boston Daily Advertiser, of August 16, and in other newspapers.

  • Webster, John White, 1793-1850.
Date:
[1842?]
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Credit: Reply to a "Notice" of Messrs. Wiley and Putnam, publishers of the unauthorized reprint of the second part of Professor Liebig's Report on organic chemistry, published in the Boston Daily Advertiser, of August 16, and in other newspapers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    making his the only perfect copy, not only in America, but in the world. In refutation of this misrepresentation it will only be necessary to quote the words of the circular announcing the fact, that corrections, &c. would be furnished by the translator ; the words are, The American edition will comprise all the corrections and additions, which are most important:—'-the author and editor have committed the corrected sheets to the care of the subscriber. The only correct edition will be that now printing at Cambridge. This, taken in connexion with what is stated on the first page of the circular, and the whole relating to the Cambridge edition, or to an American edition, renders the meaning sufficiently apparent. Nothing is said or implied in relation to any other edition in the world. The impression intended was, most obviously, that the Cambridge edition would be more correct than the London edition, or any other edition printing at the time in this country. It would have been no perversion of language, however, to have said, that the New York reprint is the most incorrect not only in America, but (as far as we yet kno^w) in the world. It appears that Mr. Owen had the earliest copy of the work, and he had more than one half of it in type before the New York publication appeared ; he had corrections, and matter not con- tained in the London copies ; he had the sheets, the cancels, corrected last proofs, and manuscript, and the Cambridge edi- tion had been announced by circular and in the newspapers. The fact had also been made known that the Cambridge edition was printing in compliance with the wishes of those to whom both the original and the translation belonged, and who had an undoubted right to authorize the republication. Messrs. Wiley and Putnam would have the public and the trade believe, that they were not aware that the republication had been undertaken by any other publisher. It was long known to the trade, had been sufficiently announced, and one of the firm was at Boston and Cambridge after the printing had been commenced at Cambridge. Is it to be supposed, that in his interviews with the booksellers in Boston, and elsewhere in the vicinity, nothing was seen or heard of the republication ?