Neil J. Wilkof, B.A., M.A., J.D., PhD.

‘This is a fascinating book that takes its reader on a voyage of discovery around several historical vignettes that illustrate the prehistory of various types of intellectual property, addressing a topic that I do not think has ever before been the subject of so extensive a treatment. It shows how these episodes bear on the subject today and widens our horizons in thinking about it. But the book is certainly not just for the intellectual property enthusiast – the stories that it weaves will intrigue any enquiring reader.’

• Contents1 Introduction to IP before IPPART I NAMES2 Names in the service of 16th-century artistic illusions 3 The improbable reimaginations of ‘Cutty Sark’PART II WRITINGS4 Behind it all is translation: from Babel to Bethlehem toBaghdad to Bialystok to Berne5 Medieval and Renaissance modes of authorial control ofwritings6 The historical mists of piracy, plagiarism, and bowdlerize PART III THINGS7 Technology transfer and Samuel Slater (1761–1835): traitor,betrayer, or man of his time?8 An unexpected Gothic tale: John Ruskin, Eugéne EmmanuelViollet-le-Duc, and conceiving the 19th restoration ofhistorical building

Neil J. Wilkof, B.A., M.A., J.D., PhD.

‘This is a fascinating book that takes its reader on a voyage of discovery around several historical vignettes that illustrate the prehistory of various types of intellectual property, addressing a topic that I do not think has ever before been the subject of so extensive a treatment. It shows how these episodes bear on the subject today and widens our horizons in thinking about it. But the book is certainly not just for the intellectual property enthusiast – the stories that it weaves will intrigue any enquiring reader.’

• Contents1 Introduction to IP before IPPART I NAMES2 Names in the service of 16th-century artistic illusions 3 The improbable reimaginations of ‘Cutty Sark’PART II WRITINGS4 Behind it all is translation: from Babel to Bethlehem toBaghdad to Bialystok to Berne5 Medieval and Renaissance modes of authorial control ofwritings6 The historical mists of piracy, plagiarism, and bowdlerize PART III THINGS7 Technology transfer and Samuel Slater (1761–1835): traitor,betrayer, or man of his time?8 An unexpected Gothic tale: John Ruskin, Eugéne EmmanuelViollet-le-Duc, and conceiving the 19th restoration ofhistorical building

Neil J. Wilkof, B.A., M.A., J.D., PhD.

‘This is a fascinating book that takes its reader on a voyage of discovery around several historical vignettes that illustrate the prehistory of various types of intellectual property, addressing a topic that I do not think has ever before been the subject of so extensive a treatment. It shows how these episodes bear on the subject today and widens our horizons in thinking about it. But the book is certainly not just for the intellectual property enthusiast – the stories that it weaves will intrigue any enquiring reader.’

• Contents1 Introduction to IP before IPPART I NAMES2 Names in the service of 16th-century artistic illusions 3 The improbable reimaginations of ‘Cutty Sark’PART II WRITINGS4 Behind it all is translation: from Babel to Bethlehem toBaghdad to Bialystok to Berne5 Medieval and Renaissance modes of authorial control ofwritings6 The historical mists of piracy, plagiarism, and bowdlerize PART III THINGS7 Technology transfer and Samuel Slater (1761–1835): traitor,betrayer, or man of his time?8 An unexpected Gothic tale: John Ruskin, Eugéne EmmanuelViollet-le-Duc, and conceiving the 19th restoration ofhistorical building