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This hardcover collection gathers both volumes of Hotten’s pirated Innocents Abroad back under a single cover, to which is appended an unauthorized collection of sketches. Hotten’s success with his pirated editions infuriated Twain, who referred to…

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This crudely printed volume collects several of the unauthorized editions of Twain’s works issued by Canadian publisher John Ross Robertson. Robertson used various legal means to circumvent international copyright: for this volume, he printed the…

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Twain edited the amusing sketches in these collections to soften the language from their original American serial publication so that they would be more suitable for British audiences. Labeled “Copyright edition,” this volume was produced…

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This unauthorized collection of Twain sketches features on its cover Twain’s caricature of William III of Prussia. Following the publication of this volume, Twain took action to better protect his copyright in England and Canada, leading to a…

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London publisher John Camden Hotten exploited the lack of an international copyright treaty to issue pirated editions of many popular American authors. Less than a year after The Innocents Abroad’s first publication, Hotten produced his own…

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For much of the nineteenth century there was no international copyright agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States. American literature was often pirated by publishers in the United Kingdom and its territory Canada, from which it…

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Clemens thanks the unidentified Bostonian for alerting him to the piratical aims of a man named Greer. He advises the publisher that “all of my stuff is amply protected, + none of it is for sale.” On the same day as this letter, he made good on his…
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