Photo of Puck,Pirate Publisher,International Burlesque,1886,Keppler,Publishers

Title: The pirate publisher - an international burlesque that has has the longest run on record / J. Keppler.
Creator(s): Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1886 February 24.
Summary: Illustration shows a man, identified as the 'Pirate Publisher', standing at center with one foot on a large book labeled 'Law', he is wearing 17th century court dress, a large hat with four plumes labeled 'American, French, German, [and] English', and a long cape that appears to be made from the title pages of pirated works of literature, and he is carrying two moneybags. Authors from 'America, Germany, France, [and] England' form a half-circle behind him, included are 'Mark Twain, C.D. Warner, G.W. Cable, E.C. Stedman, F. Brete Hart [i.e., Bret Harte], J. Hay, O.W. Holmes, F.R. Stockton, J.G. Whittier, T.B. Aldrich, W.D. Howells, J.R. Lowell, Heyse, Ebers, Scheffel, Zola, Sardou, A. Daudet, Jules Verne, Gilbert, Browning, Burnard, Hughes, Tennyson, [and] W. Collins', some hold papers labeled 'James Payn, Louis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, [and] R.L. Stevenson. They are accusing the man of illegally publishing their work without compensating them, while the man maintains that he has a legal right to publish their books. There is a Jack-in-the-box labeled 'The Hugh Conway Posthumous Producer'; the Jack holds a knife in one hand and a gun in the other. Includes choruses 'of British Authors...French Victims...German and other Sufferers, [and] Humble American Authors'.
Notes:
Title from item.
Illus. from Puck, v. 18, no. 468, (1886 February 24), centerfold.
Copyright 1886 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
Copyright--1880-1890.
Authors--1880-1890.
Publishers--1880-1890.
Jack-in-the-boxes--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
Bookmark /2011661385/
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