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Crewe MS/21/f. 20
Title
Assignment from (A) Charles Bathurst to (B) Jacob and Richard Tonson of copyrights in two books
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- 10 Feb. 1741 (Creation)
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1 single sheet
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In consideration of £12 15s. A assigns to B a fifteenth part of the copyright in Magnae Britanniae Notitia (by Edward and John Chamberlayne) and a sixth part of the copyright in Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (by Aphra Behn), rights which he purchased from Benjamin Motte, deceased. Sealed and delivered in the presence of Somerset Draper and George Hall.
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Pasted to a guard in Crewe MS 21 (f. 20).
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- Bathurst, Charles (1709-1786), bookseller (Subject)
- Tonson, Jacob (1714–1767), bookseller (Subject)
- Tonson, Richard (1717–1772), bookseller (Subject)
- Chamberlayne, Edward (1616–1703), writer (Subject)
- Chamberlayne, John (1668/9–1723), translator and literary editor (Subject)
- Behn, Aphra (? 1640–1689), writer (Subject)
- Motte, Benjamin (1693–1738), bookseller and printer (Subject)
- Draper, Somerset (fl. 1741–1748), bookseller (Subject)