led to the overproduction of cheap paper covered books and a ruinous butting of the market, robert louis stevens on copyrighted works are widely reproduced as for mrs. humphrey, robert ellesmere, some of which went into ten unauthorized editions. when hope published and authorized in addition in 1886, he assured thomas harding that we will do the best we can withh that in these distressing times when it seems next to impossible to do anything with anything. so, aggressive was the reprint industry at the time. o-oscar whoscar wilde learned ts a victim of american pirates while on his famous tour of the united states in 1882. in addition of the poems printed together with one of his lectures had appeared in a pamphlet and george munro's library and it quickly appeared and he complained to american reporters that in all of your railroad cars i find newsmen selling my poems store when i never can resist the impulse to rebuild a lesson on the defense. get piracy also helps spread the same and helps with the lecture. he earned thousands o of thousaf dollars as his share of two or received. piracy was