PROPOSED DUTY ON BOOKS. caption title

by Book Trade Circular

$150 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Signed

Washington DC : Feb. 2, 1867 . Small broadside. 20 x 13 cm. Old fold lines, some minor rumpling and toning along top margin, else very good. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Proposed duties on various kinds of imported books are listed: 20% on English language books printed before 1840; 20% on books in foreign languages not printed in the U.S.; 30 cents per pound on books in English valued at less than 2 and printed since 1840; etc. . Signed in type by 14 American publishing houses who

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