Elizabethan Monopolies. The history of the Company of Mineral & Battery Works from 1565 to 1604
Details:
- Author(s) Donald, Maxwell B
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1961
- Pages 256pp; illus
- Publisher Oliver & Boyd
- Place Published Edinburgh
Topics:
- Name Intellectual property inc patents, trade marks, designs & copyright inc management
- Name Management structures
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
- Name Investors & investor behaviour
- Name Corporate governance
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Early work focusing on 1] organisation and management; 2] business activities at certain locations. Chapters include: 'Secession from the Company of Mines Royal'; 'Grants of letters patent'; 'Patentees'; 'Shareholders and their interests' which provides profiles of individual shareholders; 'Company organisation and finance' including company regulations; 'First developments near Tintern Abbey'; 'Pure iron and iron wire manufacture in Monmouthshire - reorganisation, 1569-80, consolidation, 1581-90, frustration, 1591-1600'; 'Patent infringement allegations in lead manufacture in Derbyshire - lead, infringement proceedings'; 'Brass manufacture at Isleworth in Middlesex'. An appendix provides precises of 'Reports on the case of monopolies' [pp208-49]