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Bela Marsh (1797-1869) was a publisher and bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1795-1892. Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 1892 Authors under his imprint included SpiritualistsBret E. Carroll. Spiritualism in antebellum America. Indiana University Press, 1997 and abolitionistsLibrary of Congress. African American OdysseyAAS. African-American History Resources such as John Stowell Adams, Adin Ballou, Warren Chase, Lysander Spooner, and Henry Clarke Wright. Marsh kept offices on Washington Street (ca.1820-1832),Boston Directory. 1820, 1832 Cornhill (ca.1847-1852),Boston Almanac, 1847. Boston Directory, 1849, 1852 Franklin Street (ca.1854-1856),Boston Directory. 1856 and Bromfield Street (ca.1858-1868).Boston Directory. 1858, 1862
Among his business partners were Nahum Capen, Gardner P. Lyon, T.H. Webb, and George W. Williams.American Antiquarian Society. Bela Marsh Papers, 1830-1865 He belonged to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association and the Physiological Society.Boston Almanac. 1838
Marsh was the defendant in the seminal copyright case, Folsom v. Marsh (C.C.D. Mass. 1841), for publishing a two-volume abridgment of George Washington's letters, where the Justice Joseph Story found he had infringed the copyright in the 12-volume set of the same edited by Jared Sparks.
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External links WorldCat. Marsh, Bela 1797-1869 Open Library. Bela Marsh, publisher Library of Congress. Position of the Democratic Party in 1852. "Freemen of America, how long will you be ledd by such leaders" (item sold by Marsh)