Today in Copyright History: 7/3

On July 3, 1891, the play Saints and Sinners, written by English dramatist Henry Arthur Jones and published by Macmillan and Co., became the first foreign work registered in the United States.  From the History of Copyright Timeline at the U.S. Copyright Office.

 
Public domain, via Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/saintsandsinner01jonegoog).

Public domain, via Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/saintsandsinner01jonegoog).