Title page from The Law of Intellectual Property (1855)

The Law of Intellectual Property (1855)

Although this is entitled volume 1 and a proposed list of contents for a volume 2 was appended to the work, no volume 2 ever appeared. Spooner takes a strong position on the property right of an author to his ideas in perpetuity with no government defined limit. The opening chapter has an interesting defence of property rights in general.