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		kgwgk on Sept 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror Pirate publishers were a thing well before that: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.28173/

blowski on Sept 25, 2022 [–]

Wow! I took the 1913 date from the Etymology dictionary, so I'm surprised it goes back another 100 years before that.

kgwgk on Sept 25, 2022 | [–]

It goes back even more, it predates copyright.

https://books.google.ch/books?id=jFMEPUO7LS0C&lpg=PP1&hl=de&...

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