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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 738381, member: 33"]It's because it's basically the same book, except for the cover and title page. Publishers do change the titles of their books, and it was probably done even more frequently in that era. They also changed covers a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>They considered it to be the same book they copyrighted. They considered the book's contents to be what they copyrighted. One thing that seems a bit unusual is that they mentioned the title under which they previously copyrighted it. I haven't seen that very often, but have seen it. It's actually very useful that they do that, because there is no question that it's the same book, just with a different title.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I found this 1907 listing for the book under the title that is on yours. I'm not sure if it had the same cover yours does because this book is just an index of books published in a certain year.</p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=f2mu31q1wMkC&lpg=RA1-PA438&ots=tGdktvwo4n&dq=%22natural%20history%20of%20the%20world%22%20anecdotes%20%22miles%22&pg=RA1-PA438#v=onepage&q=%22natural%20history%20of%20the%20world%22%20anecdotes%20%22miles%22&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=f2mu31q1wMkC&lpg=RA1-PA438&ots=tGdktvwo4n&dq=%22natural%20history%20of%20the%20world%22%20anecdotes%20%22miles%22&pg=RA1-PA438#v=onepage&q=%22natural%20history%20of%20the%20world%22%20anecdotes%20%22miles%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=f2mu31q1wMkC&lpg=RA1-PA438&ots=tGdktvwo4n&dq="natural history of the world" anecdotes "miles"&pg=RA1-PA438#v=onepage&q="natural history of the world" anecdotes "miles"&f=false</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 738381, member: 33"]It's because it's basically the same book, except for the cover and title page. Publishers do change the titles of their books, and it was probably done even more frequently in that era. They also changed covers a lot. They considered it to be the same book they copyrighted. They considered the book's contents to be what they copyrighted. One thing that seems a bit unusual is that they mentioned the title under which they previously copyrighted it. I haven't seen that very often, but have seen it. It's actually very useful that they do that, because there is no question that it's the same book, just with a different title. By the way, I found this 1907 listing for the book under the title that is on yours. I'm not sure if it had the same cover yours does because this book is just an index of books published in a certain year. [URL]https://books.google.com/books?id=f2mu31q1wMkC&lpg=RA1-PA438&ots=tGdktvwo4n&dq=%22natural%20history%20of%20the%20world%22%20anecdotes%20%22miles%22&pg=RA1-PA438#v=onepage&q=%22natural%20history%20of%20the%20world%22%20anecdotes%20%22miles%22&f=false[/URL][/QUOTE]
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