On 1 August 2012 14:24, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
Note, incidentally, that there must be some interesting overlap
between this and Old Bailey Online, which will document many of the
trials that preceded the hangings.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18120513-5-person102 -
for example, is also covered in Cotton.
True, but their licensing conditions
(
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Legal-info.jsp) are
incompatible with ours, so they are unlikely to make good partners for
us.
What's the
possibility of WMUK buying the book for £5,000, scanning it
to Commons, then selling the book privately or to a dealer to recover
most of the money spent?
I suspect that we would be unlikely to get more than half that were we
to sell it direct to a dealer, and goodness only knows if we were to
sell it privately. It's a bit of a gamble with donor funds!
You're probably right, I'm afraid.
Another idea. How about starting a public appeal to raise the money to
buy the book with the intention to donate it to the BL or some other
worthy institution, on the condition that they make high resolution
scans available under an acceptable license. That way we get lots of
good publicity, we're not gambling with money donors might not have
wanted us to spend in this way, and we don't have to invest in a
professional quality book scanner.
Andrew