English Translation

- 5 - 3) the Prague textbook publishing house was soon the only one to receive 4) its own Normalachul book printing shop and shortly thereafter a special royal privilege impressorium priva- 5) tavum . The textbooks published here received the description "Prague, in the publishing house of the k.k. Normalschul- buchdruckerey (W Praze, Nákladem c. k. prawidelnej sskol. 6) ské Kněhotiskárny)'. The textbook publishers had to provide 25% of the textbooks they had put on for the sale to poor pupils. August l788 the school books publishing house - this decree applied to Vienna and Prague - also received the exclusive Priv ileg for printing 7) and distribution of high school books, which however l85o 8) was restricted and soon completely abolished.' Yes, it happened that with the teaching ministerial decree of 22 November l867 Z. In 994, it was proposed as a principle that the Privileium of the Schulbücher-Verlag would not exclude exceptions and that the textbooks also published in the private publishing house could be used as soon as the authorization of the Ministry 9) was obtained for this purpose.' Thus, by this decree, the way was clear for the private school book publishing house and in Vienna, now the end of the l9. In the 19th century, the big German school book publishing house, some of which, however, also produced Czech books.