To the great Variety of Readers.
From the moſt able, to him that can but ſpell: There you are number’d. We had rather you were weighd. Eſpecially, when the fate of all Bookes depends vpon your capacities : and not of your heads alone, but of your purſes. Well! It is now publique, & you wil ſtand for your priuiledges wee know : to read, and cenſure. Do ſo, but buy it firſt.
from the Introduction to the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Works, 1623.
(before) you were abus’d with diuerſe ſtolne, and ſurreptitious copies, maimed, and deformed by the frauds and ſtealthes of iniurious impoſtors…
I’m only going to post my other copy of Restoration Day to a cousin…. not publish sneaky copies of it. 😀
Well, since Restoration Day is under a CC-BY-SA licence you can legally make copies, furreptitious or otherwise. As long as they’re not “maimed and deformed” – derivative works should always be labelled as such.
I hope the cousin enjoys it!